unloosen

• “Not only that, but unloosen is actually a perfectly good, old verb; so is unloose, which turns up in Shakespeare and Sheridan and Shelley.”

  Word Court

• “He could unloosen a fly in a hotel lobby without anyone seeing.”

  Fictionaut: New York at Twenty-Six

• “I was able to unloosen my belt and then wrap it around my hand with the thick buckle dangling by my side.”

  Simon & Schuster: Blue Rage, Black Redemption

• “I just want to hang out with my family and friends and, you know, eat Doritos until I have to unloosen my belt.”

  CNN Transcript Aug 4, 2006

• “Tony Blair, who has just been elected prime minister, realizes the monarchy is at stake if she doesn ` t unloosen that stiff upper lip.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 29, 2006

• “Thus it is that unloosen in the vernacular has the sense not of 'tighten' but of 'loosen'.”

  languagehat.com: STILL UNPACKED.

• “Arrived at the halting place, the first thing the muleteer does, is to go from mule to mule to unloosen that cord; the loads then fall to the ground.”

  Travels in Nubia

• “Saying this, one by one advanced and proceeded to unloosen the purse, and to unclasp the fan-case; and allowing Pao-yü no time to make any remonstrance, they stripped him of every ornament in the way of appendage which he carried about on his person.”

  Hung Lou Meng

• “When you breathe you actually help to unloosen them and let them go.”

  Simon & Schuster: Jumpstart Your Metabolism

• “Mister Wilkins 'eyes bugged out an he say, "Argggg!" an start fannin the air an tryin to unloosen his seatbelt.”

  Forrest Gump

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