| 释义 |
loosened, ppl. a.|ˈluːs(ə)nd|
[f. loosen v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.; slackened, relaxed; rendered loose or easily detachable; also dial. liberated from service.
1680Dryden Ovid's Ep. vii. 9 While you, with loosen'd Sails, and Vows, prepare To seek a Land, that flies the Searchers Care. 1697― Virg. Georg. iii. 307 He scours along the Field, with loosen'd Reins. 1755J. G. Cooper Estimate of Life iii. 64 in Dodsley Coll. Poems III. 224 Despair, that hellish fiend, proceeds From loosen'd thoughts, and impious deeds. 1798Landor Gebir ii. 136 His chaplets mingled with her loosened hair. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Lord John xxix, But his loosen'd limbs shook fast. 1845A. M. Hall Whiteboy xi. 91 Then will come the loosened soldier. 1855Browning Transcendentalism 25 He..turned with loosened tongue to talk with him. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. xxv. 185 The loosened avalanches..upon the mountain heads. |