loose
/lus/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.46 in modern English
5
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me."
- "And it was Thora, the little Dwarf's wife, The five rune-books she took out; So she loosed him fully out of the runes, Her daughter had bound him about."
- ""Ay, and one was nigh to being slain by the hot-pot to be eaten of those brutes, thy children, and had not the others fought gallantly they too had been slain, and not even I could have called back the life which had been loosed from the body.""
- "Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem."
- "he had red her riddle, which no wight Could ever loose"
- "This wheelbarrow has a loose wheel."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Old Norse laussbor. Middle English loos English loose From Middle English loos, los, lous, from Old Norse lauss, from Proto-Germanic *lausaz, whence also -less, leasing; from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₁- (“to untie, set free, separate”), whence also lyo-, -lysis, via Ancient Greek.
Origin
Word Breakdown
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /lus/
- British English: /luːs/
Usage
- Transitive verb
- Intransitive verb
- Obsolete
- Dated
- American usage
- Slang