Let Loose

Definition: Let Loose

Let Loose

Verb

1. Express audibly; utter sounds (not necessarily words); "She let out a big heavy sigh"; "He uttered strange sounds that nobody could understand".

2. Turn loose or free from restraint; "let loose mines"; "Loose terrible plagues upon humanity".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Let Loose

Liberation

Verb: liberate, free; set free, set clear, set at liberty; render free, emancipate, release; enfranchise, affranchise; manumit; enlarge; disband, discharge, disenthrall, disenthral, dismiss; let go, let loose, loose, let out, let slip; cast adrift, turn adrift; deliver; absolve; (acquit).

Crosswords: Let Loose

Hey, it's like that old goat says: Rule 11: It's all just a game, so let loose and have fun with it! (Kingdom Hearts; writing credit: Billy Gallo; Robert Gillings)

Billy Roy let loose by sundown. (Charro!; writing credit: Frederick Louis Fox; Charles Marquis Warren)

A morning swollen with new life, a morning on which, if I had the voice, I would let loose with song. (Northern Exposure; writing credit: Khadijah Hashim)

He let loose like zeus with fire from his fingers (I Wanna Rock; performing artist: Prince)

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The savages let loose, or The cruel fate of the Loyalists. Credit: Library of Congress.

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But if, through defects that may happen out of the ordinary course of nature, any one comes not to such a degree of reason, wherein he might be supposed capable of knowing the law, and so living within the rules of it, he is never capable of being a free man, he is never let loose to the disposure of his own will (because he knows no bounds to it, has not understanding, its proper guide) but is continued under the tuition and government of others, all the time his own understanding is uncapable of that charge. (Second Treatise of Government)

Up till the year 1933 or even 1935, Germany might have been saved from the awful fate which has overtaken her and we might all have been spared the miseries Hitler let loose upon mankind. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

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The Prussians, let loose upon the fugitives, pushed forward.

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Expression using "let loose": To let loose. Additional references.

Albanian

liroj (acquit, cast off, cheapen, detach, discharge, disengage, dismiss, ease, excuse, free, free oneself, let go, liberate, loose, loosen, pay, pay out, relax, release, slack, slacken, unbind, unstring, vacate), lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, emit, exhale, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let go, let off, pay, project, radiate, relieve, send, set on, shed, shoot, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter). (various references)

Bulgarian 

освобождавам (discharge, disencumber, disengage, dispense, emancipate, enfranchise, exempt, extricate, free, give off, liberate, loose, make free, manumit, redeem, release, remit, rescue, set free, turn off, unbar, unbind, unburden, uncork, unfasten, unhand, unloose, unpen, unshackle, vacate), пускам (admit, bleed, cast off, course, discharge, dismiss, drive, drop, float, fly, give off, grow, issue, let, let fall, let go, mail, play, push out, put forth, put on, put out, release, rip out, run, send forth, slip, start, start up, throw in, turn out, uncork, unhand, unleash). (various references)

Czech

uvolnit (disembody, disengage, dislodge, free, loose, relax, release, undo, unfix, unfreeze, unpin, unscrew, unstop, unstrap, untie, vacate, weaken). (various references)

Finnish

päästää irti (let go, let off the lead, loosen, release one's hold, unchain, unfasten, unleash, unloose), päästää irralleen (let off the lead, loosen, release, unleash), päästää (discharge, disengage, let go, release, temper, unfasten). (various references)

French

lâcher (let off). (various references)

German

loslassen (come out with, launch, let go, let off, loose off, release, relinquish, send off, spout, to let go, to relinquish, unclasp, unhand, unleash, unloose), frei herumlaufen lassen (set loose, turn loose), auflösen (analyse, break off, break up, cancel, clear up, close, disband, disintegrate, dismiss, dispel, disperse, dissolve, eliminate, liquidate, melt, resolve, solve, terminate, to disband, to disintegrate, to dissolve, to sever, undo, wind up). (various references)

Hebrew 

ל�"שמיט (drop, leave out, miss out, neglect, omit). (various references)

Hungarian

kienged (deflate, let out, outlet, surge, thaw out, to come loose, to deflate, to get loose, to let out, to release, to run off, to slacken, to unclasp, to uncoop, to unfold, to veer). (various references)

Indonesian

mengumbar (free something). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

�"上 (give up, relinquish, serve up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

へ�"じょう (give up, relinquish, serve up). (various references)

Pig Latin

etlay ooselay

Portuguese

soltar (cob, discharge from, drop, extricate, free, give off, give over, heave, let go, liberate, loose, loosen, open, release, relinquish, set free, set up, slacken, throw, unbend, unbind, unbrace, uncage, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unfetter, unfix, unhand, unleash, unlink, unshackle, unstrap, untwine, utter). (various references)

Russian 

выпустить (leave out, miss out). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pustiti (admit, allow, let, let go, let in, let out, permit, release, run), osloboditi (absolve, acquit, affranchise, deliver, disembarrass, disengage, exculpate, exempt, free, let off, liberate, make free, release, relieve, rid, set free, unbind, unleash, unloose, unyoke, vindicate). (various references)

Spanish

dar rienda suelta (indulge). (various references)

Swedish

släppa (come loose, discharge, drop, drop down, ease, give up, let, let fall, let go, let slip, release, relinquish). (various references)

Turkish

yumuşamak (let upon, limber up, mellow, melt, moderate, relax, relent, soften, sweeten, unbend), serbest bırakmak (affranchise, deblock, decontrol, deliver, discharge, disentangle, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, give a horse the reins, give smb. his head, let go, let go one's hold of, let off, liberate, loose, manumit, release, relinquish, set at large, set at liberty, set free, slip, unbind, unchain, unfreeze, unhitch, unloose, unrein, unshackle), salıvermek (affranchise, disengage, dismiss, extricate, free, leave off, let go, let go one's hold of, let out, loose, release, release one's hold, set free, set loose, slip, unhand). (various references)

Turkmen 

gaзyrmak (drop, let fall). (various references)

Ukrainian

випустити. (various references)

effrenatus. (various references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-3 letters: leets, loose, loots, losel, lotos, oleos, selle, sleet, sotol, steel, stele, stole, stool, teels, teles, tells, telos, toles, tolls, tools.

-4 letters: eels, ells, else, lees, leet, lest, lets, loos, loot, lose, lost, lots, oleo, oles, oots, seel, sell, sloe, slot, sole, solo, soot, teel, tees, tele, tell, tels, toes, tole, toll, tool.

+2 letters: obsoletely.

+3 letters: blastocoele, cholesterol, coleoptiles, postcollege, teleologies, teleologist.

+4 letters: blastocoeles, cholesterols, postcolleges, selenologist, speleologist, teleologists.

+5 letters: electrologies, electrologist, emotionlessly, metallophones, obsolescently, planetologies, recollections, selenologists, speleologists, stereological, tortoiseshell, troublesomely.