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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of unloose.

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Examples

  • Shelley as "seeds" and "dead leaves" that slumber, dormant, until futurity unlooses their incendiary social potential.

    Shelley's Pod People 2005

  • Just as they come within reach of the portal, a particularly VIOLENT JOLT unlooses a BEAM, which falls across the opening—their only way of getting out of the collapsing ship.

    Becoming Human: The Seven of Nine™ Saga Various Authors 1998

  • Just as they come within reach of the portal, a particularly VIOLENT JOLT unlooses a BEAM, which falls across the opening—their only way of getting out of the collapsing ship.

    Becoming Human: The Seven of Nine™ Saga Various Authors 1998

  • Just as they come within reach of the portal, a particularly VIOLENT JOLT unlooses a BEAM, which falls across the opening—their only way of getting out of the collapsing ship.

    Becoming Human: The Seven of Nine™ Saga Various Authors 1998

  • For the Mexicans are a race into which the religion of the Conquistadores penetrated indelibly, whose hold upon them time scarcely unlooses.

    Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development Martin [Editor] Hume 1919

  • Study, not only the most celebrated pages of his work, such as the Scene d'amour (the one of all his compositions that Berlioz himself liked best), [85] La Tristesse de Romeo, or La Fete des Capulet (where a spirit like Wagner's own unlooses and subdues again tempests of passion and joy), but take less well-known pages, such as the Scherzetto chante de la reine Mab, or the

    Musicians of To-Day Rolland, Romain, 1866-1944 1915

  • This middle grape of the cluster will turn round in the fingers that know how to find and grasp it, and so turning and turning slowly, unlooses a bolt within -- here -- and so the whole woodwork swings out upon hinges and reveals the doorway.

    The Secret Chamber at Chad Evelyn Everett-Green 1894

  • The gradual coming on of spring among the mountains concentrates itself for him in one instant of epic sublimity, -- that in which the mountain unlooses its year's load of sound, and

    Robert Browning 1892

  • Prayer can break even a hard heart; a memory, stored with biblical truth and pious teaching, will prove, when once God's grace softens the heart and unlooses the tongue,

    George Müller of Bristol And His Witness to a Prayer-Hearing God 1874

  • A mug of ale while we get our guns greatly cheers him, and unlooses his tongue.

    The Amateur Poacher Richard Jefferies 1867

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