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loosening (up)verb1present participle of loosen (up) to free from obstruction or difficultyhoped that adding a second lane would loosen up traffic on that street easing, facilitating, greasing, smoothing, unclogging accelerating, expediting, hastening, hurrying, quickening, rushing, speedingadvancing, forwarding, furthering, promotingabetting, aiding, assisting, helping, improvingdisentangling, straightening (out), untanglingsimplifying, streamlining paving the way (for) complicating hindering, impedingretardingaggravating, worseningperplexing, sophisticating to get rid of nervous tension or anxietya high-pressure job that makes it hard for him to loosen up even on weekends chilling, chilling out(slang), decompressing, de-stressing, mellowing (out), relaxing, unwinding, winding down unbendingbasking, kicking back, lolling, lounging, reposing, restingbumming, dallying, dawdling, dillydallying, droning, footling, goofing (off), hacking (around), hanging (around or out), idling, lazing, loafing, vegetating, vegging out, zoning outalleviating, comforting, easing, relievingcalming, composing, cooling, quieting, settling hanging loose tensing (up) |