7 Verbs to Use for the Word loosening

At the same time, all disclose a partial loosening of the rigid wiry convention, a more boisterous rhythm and a slightly softer treatment of trees and animals; and, although no very close correlation is possible, the theme itself may well have helped to precipitate these important changes.

He too, I saw, had experienced the same loosening of the spirit from its trivial bonds, dear and beautiful as they were, so long as one did not hug them close.

As people feel the loosening of the avalanche, so they felt the catastrophe tottering in the gloom.

It is this change, together with the appearance of the rings, that indicates the loosening of the attachment of the os pedis to the wall, and its afterwards backward and downward direction (see Fig. 124).

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.

He regarded with equal alarm and anger the loosening of the bands of authority and order among the Franklin frontiersmen.

Hank's face was ghastly, but Cathcart's showed a sudden weaknessa loosening of all his faculties, as it were.

7 Verbs to Use for the Word  loosening