Loosening is valid Scrabble Word

Is loosening a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is loosening valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

9 letters word
10 points in Scrabble
14 points in WWF

Definitions for LOOSENING in dictionary:

VERB:

make (something tied, fastened, or fixed in place) less tight or firm
become relaxed or less tight
(with reference to the bowels) make or become relaxed prior to excretion
make less strict
make (a connection) less strong
relax (one's grip or muscles)

NOUN:

the act of making looser
act of loosening
an occurrence of control or strength weakening
the act of making something less tight

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to make looser

Words related to LOOSENING

loosen6 loosened9 loosenings11 loosens7

Words that contain LOOSENING

loosenings11 unloosening12

How to use LOOSENING in a sentence

The afternoon wore on, with no loosening of the grip of the storm, and Peter began to realize that he was a prisoner.
The loosening of the first stone could have opened the way for the second, although a suspicious observer might naturally have asked why its fall did not follow more immediately.
His stiffened and swollen hands were loosening from the raft and grasping it again only by a supreme effort of his will.
Vainly he hurt his teeth, some of which were loosening under the pressure of the second teeth rising underneath.
He regarded with equal alarm and anger the loosening of the bands of authority and order among the Franklin frontiersmen.
The last few days had shown him anew how their hold on him was loosening.
The hand that Rowcliffe had let go went suddenly to her throat, seizing her necklace and loosening it as if it choked her.
Then, loosening the pistol in his belt, but drawing his long hunting knife, he crept from the thicket.
In all hot and dry climates, the continued shrinking of wood wheels and loosening of the tires is a constant source of expense and inconvenience.
Lying Bill was giving orders for raising his bow anchor, and the loosening of the shore lines.

But though he could not put his finger upon the precise thing said or done which marked the loosening of his hold, he knew he was receding rather than advancing.
In his fall he had rolled over on his side, and for a moment I supposed her to be busy loosening his collar.
Now he bent forward, and, loosening the shirt, lifted out the bag.
The sudden loosening of the rawhide thongs gave the outlaw new life.
Hoe between frequently, but do not use a fork or spade anywhere near the crop, for the loosening of the ground will cause the roots to branch.
At that moment several fragments of rock, loosening, slid down in the dark just behind her.
He crept nearer still to the sleeping man, loosening the knife in his girdle.
Follow the cultivator immediately with the hoe, loosening the soil about the hills.
This can be done by loosening two of the bulbs on one side so that they will not light.
Now, spent and silent, he awaited death, looking at the newcomers with the slow, indifferent glance of those whose ties with life are loosening.
This can be tied or untied without loosening the loop itself.
Mike slid off his horse, and, loosening the ropes, indicated that Rosemary and Floyd were to do the same.
In this case water had no part in loosening or bringing down this mass of fragments.
Mountain sheep sprang from crag to crag as Apollo rounded a corner and broke into their tranquil lives, now and then loosening a stone as they jumped.
After using all his strength in long-continued efforts, he succeeded in loosening the bar of his bed-room window.
When the earth needed loosening up to make more fit for planting, this plow was used over the earth, leaving it rather smooth and light.
Then this loosening of the home tie renders easy the shifting from city to country and seashore.
The seed is drilled in the ground, and the only attention required by the plant is loosening the ground and weeding two or three times when it is young.
Were I a poorer man these things could not be, but with my wealth I have bought my freedom, loosening the iron shackles of convention from about my feet with a key of gold.

Similar words containing LOOSEN without suffix ing

loosen6 loosens7 loosened9 loosener8 unloosen8 looseners9 looseness9 unloosens9 loosenings11 unloosened11 loosenesses11 unloosening12

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