音标:['luːs(ə)n] ;
vt.
使…松开;松开;解开(结等):
to loosen a knot
解结
to loosen one’s coat
解开外衣
to loosen a screw
松开螺丝
放宽(限制);放松;放纵;使变松散:
to loosen the price-control regulations
放宽价格管理条例
to loosen restrictions on the sale of liquor
放宽对销售烈酒的限制
使松,使(土壤等)密度小些:
He is loosening the soil in his garden.
他在花园中松土。
使(肠)通畅,解除(便秘);使咳得出痰
vi.
变松;松弛;松开:
变松;松弛;松开:
Your tie has
loosened.
你的领带松了。
That screw has loosened.
那个螺丝松了。

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a fat cat
abstract method
advecting
agrilife
Aldus
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alikewise
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apple-mose
autoclave saponification
baby transplanter
Bact.
billypot
bottom centrefired pit
Bucalemo
Bājura
capping machine
catamorphisms
ceremoniality
charismatic authority
colorways
commence on
corrobborees
detection algorithm
disk ruling
disreputableness
divergence ratio
drawknives
Eddie Rickenbacker
energy cycle
Esametina
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exhibition gallery
external boundary of reservoir
fakements
Flumark
forty winkss
fruit caving
fully developed individual
gold-surfaced mirror
high-phosphorus
hyperchromemia
immunocaptured
internet auction
intolerable limit
inverted loop
kadoma (gatooma)
kiva
Kukak Bay
member-of-parliament
Mentha spicata
midspecification quality
military agreement
monolithic junction diode
morsy
nightchair
nonswitched connection
nut sedge
Orcaella
orientation information
os capitatum
Palagiano
panderingly
panoramic comparision
passive microwave sensor
Penhold
personality analysis
Phencynonate
potassium platinichloride
pseudocypraea adamsonii
pterantha
public attorney
quadrimolecular reaction
quick-acting switching-off
ramzans
re-brand
reciprocity failure
remotely surveillanced section
rupicolas rupicolas
Saelania
short oo
shrinkage of clay
slip flow
SOGAT
sonata-rondo
spokeslady
string warp machines
Surovatikha
swager for seamless shell
taurophobia
tenpinss
three-masted
tools up
transverse failure
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view screen
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vot
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walking simulators
Wind Mountain
yangsin series