Search results
to start to feel less embarrassed and to become more relaxed when you are with other people, or to make someone feel like this: He seemed quite nervous at the beginning, but he soon loosened up. A gin and tonic will loosen you up. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
verb. loosened up; loosening up; loosens up. Synonyms of loosen up. intransitive verb. : to become less tense : relax. Synonyms. chill out [ slang] de-stress. decompress. mellow (out) relax. unwind. wind down. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of loosen up in a Sentence.
2 meanings: 1. If a person or situation loosens up, they become more relaxed and less tense. 2. If you loosen up your body, or.... Click for more definitions.
1. To do stretches or light exercise before a more strenuous activity. 2. To become less strict or tense, as in one's demeanor; relax: always loosened up after he got home. [Middle English lousnen, losnen, from losen, from los, loose; see loose .] American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
to start to feel less embarrassed and to become more relaxed when you are with other people, or to make someone feel like this: He seemed quite nervous at the beginning, but he soon loosened up. A gin and tonic will loosen you up. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
Definitions of loosen up. verb. make one's body limber or suppler by stretching, as if to prepare for strenuous physical activity. synonyms: limber up, warm up. see more. verb. become less tense, rest, or take one's ease. synonyms: decompress, relax, slow down, unbend, unwind. see more.
loosen up meaning, definition, what is loosen up: to stop worrying and become more relaxed...: Learn more.
LOOSEN UP meaning: to become more relaxed with other people: . Learn more.
1. phrasal verb. If a person or situation loosens up, they become more relaxed and less tense. Relax, smile; loosen up in mind and body. Things loosened up, in politics and the economy. 2. phrasal verb.
loosen up | loosen somebody/something up to relax your muscles or parts of the body or to make them relax, before taking exercise, etc. Dancers were loosening up before going on stage.
