Loosen

Definition

loosen / 'lu:sn / v ေခ်ာင္ေစသည္။ ေလွ်ာ့ေပးသည္။ ေလ်ာ့သည္။ Can you loosen the lid of this jar? ဒီပုလင္းဖံုးကို ခြၽတ္ေပး ႏိုင္မလား။ ❍ The treasury is unwilling to loosen its grip on monetary policy. ❍ medicine to loosen a cough (ie help to bring up the PHLEGM) သလိပ္ေခ်ာင္ေဆး။ သလိပ္ေပ်ာ္ေဆး။ ❍ This knot keeps loosening. Compare TIGHTEN ❏ loosen sb’s tongue [ IDM ] အာသြက္လွ်ာသြက္ ျဖစ္ေစ သည္။ The wine soon loosened his tongue. ❏ loosen (sth/sb) up [ PHRV ] ေလွ်ာ့သည္။ You should loosen up (your muscles) before playing any sport. ❍ Don’t be so nervous — loosen up a little.

Examples

1. To open it you simply loosen these two screws.
2. I’d eaten so much I had to loosen my belt.
3. The country will loosen currency controls to encourage spending abroad.