Loosen up - definition, transcription
Amer.
|ˈluːsən ʌp|
Brit.
|ˈluːsən ʌp|
verb
- cause to become unblocked
- become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner (syn: relax)
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity (syn: limber up, warm up)
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease (syn: decompress, relax, unbend, unwind)
- cause to feel relaxed (syn: relax, unwind)
- become less tense, less formal, or less restrained, and assume a friendlier manner (syn: relax)
- make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity (syn: limber up, warm up)
- become less tense, rest, or take one's ease (syn: decompress, relax, unbend, unwind)
- cause to feel relaxed (syn: relax, unwind)
Extra examples
The team spends half an hour loosening up before each game.
If you don't loosen up soon, I shall have to find other ways of making you talk.
Loosen up, this isn't a formal occasion.
...asked the school administrators to loosen up the rules on what can be printed on T-shirts...
...a high-pressure job that makes it hard for him to loosen up even on weekends...
Do you think the old man will loosen up when we tell him our pitiful story?
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