loosen

/ˈluːsən/

意味: 緩める

例文: Kai loosened the ropes gently.
　　  カイがロープをそっと緩めた。

言葉のよくある組み合わせ: loosen a knot(結び目を緩める), loosen a screw(ネジを緩める), loosen restrictions(制限を緩める)

定義: 物を少し緩めることや、きつく締まっているものを少しゆるくすることを指します。たとえば、ネジや結び目を緩めたり、規則や制限を少し緩和することが含まれます。

loosenは約400,000語に1回程度の頻出度です。

口語性、形式性、抽象度、感情度

水平グラフ: 会話での使われやすさ、フォーマル度、抽象度（具体・概念）、感情度を示します。数値が高いほど、その特徴が強いことを表します。

感情分析

レーダーチャート: 怒り、期待、嫌悪、恐れ、喜び、悲しみ、驚き、信頼、ポジティブ、ネガティブの強さを示します。

　年代別単語頻度グラフ

このグラフは、1900年からの単語出現頻度の推移を示しています。値は ×10⁻⁸ スケールで表示されています。

　

Definitions(定義)

Verb: make loose or looser
Verb: make less severe or strict
Verb: become less severe or strict
Verb: disentangle and raise the fibers of
Verb: cause to become loose
Verb: make less dense
Verb: become loose or looser or less tight

Parts of Speech(品詞)

Verb

Examples(例文)

感情分析に使用された例文：

Please loosen the screws before removing the panel.(パネルを外す前にネジを緩めてください。)
The tension will loosen after a few minutes of stretching.(数分間ストレッチすると緊張が緩みます。)
He tried to loosen the knot in the rope carefully.(彼はロープの結び目を慎重に緩めようとした。)

 

Word Netから抽出した例文：

Verb: loosen the tension on a rope
Verb: The government relaxed the curfew after most of the rebels were caught
Verb: The rules relaxed after the new director arrived
Verb: tease wool
Verb: undo the shoelace
Verb: untie the knot
Verb: loosen the necktie
Verb: loosen the soil
Verb: The noose loosened
Verb: the rope relaxed

Synonyms/Antonyms(類語/反意語)

Synonyms(類語): loose, loosen, relax, tease, tease apart, undo, untie

Antonyms(反意語): stiffen

Hypernyms/Hyponyms(上位語/下位語)

Hypernyms (General categories)(上位語): change, disentangle, weaken

Coordinate Terms(同じ上位語をもつもの): accelerate, acerbate, acetylate, achromatize, activate, adjust, affect, age, alchemize, alcoholize, alkalinize, allegorize, alter, americanize, angulate, animize, antiquate, antique, archaize, arterialize, ascend, ash, assibilate, assimilate, assume, attenuate, automatize, awaken, barb, barbarize, bestialize, better, blind, blister, blunt, blur, boil, break, break down, break into, brighten, bring, brutalize, bubble, calcify, camp, capacitate, capture, carbonate, caseate, catch, catch on, cause to sleep, centralize, change by reversal, change integrity, change intensity, change magnitude, change posture, change shape, change state, change surface, change taste, charge, chasten, check, circularize, civilize, clarify, classicize, clean, clear, clinker, clot, cloud, coarsen, cohere, collapse, color, come, come in, come round, commercialize, communize, commute, complexify, complicate, concretize, condense, confuse, conjugate, constitutionalize, contaminate, conventionalize, convert, cook, cool, corrupt, counterchange, crack, crash, creolize, cry, cure, customize, damage, darken, dawn, de-emphasize, deaden, deaminate, decalcify, decarboxylate, decay, decelerate, decentralize, decimalize, decorate, decrease, decrepitate, deepen, defervesce, deflate, deform, dehydrogenate, demagnetize, demist, democratize, demonize, demulsify, demythologize, denationalize, denaturalize, denature, deodorize, deoxidize, depersonalize, depolarize, desalinate, desensitize, destabilize, detransitivize, devalue, develop, devilize, die, die down, digest, digitize, dim, dinge, dirty, disable, discolor, disharmonize, disintegrate, disorder, disqualify, dissimilate, dissolve, distill, diversify, dizzy, domesticate, dope, draw, dress, drift, drop, dry, dull, dynamize, ease up, edit, embrittle, empty, emulsify, enable, end, equal, eroticize, estrange, etherealize, etiolate, europeanize, evaporate, even, excite, extend, exteriorize, fade, fail, fall, fall for, fatten, felt, feminize, fertilize, fill, fix, flatten, flip, flocculate, fly, fold, form, format, foul, freeze, frenchify, freshen, full, gel, gelatinize, give way, glamorize, glaze, glorify, go out, gradate, grow, gum, habituate, harden, harmonize, harshen, have, heat, hue, humanize, humble, hush, hydrate, hydrogenate, hydrolyze, ice up, immaterialize, immortalize, inactivate, incandesce, increase, indispose, indurate, industrialize, inflate, inform, inseminate, insulate, intensify, internationalize, introject, introvert, invalidate, invert, iodinate, ionate, ionize, islamize, isomerize, keratinize, laicize, leave, legitimate, lend, liberalize, lifehack, lift, lighten, liquefy, loosen, louden, lower, lubricate, magnetize, make, mark, masculinize, mature, mechanize, mellow, melt, militarize, mince, mix, modernize, modify, mold, morph, move, muddy, mutate, mythologize, narrow, nationalize, naturalize, nazify, neutralize, nick, normalize, obfuscate, obscure, obsolesce, occidentalize, occult, officialize, opacify, opalize, opsonize, orientalize, ossify, outmode, oxidise, oxidize, oxygenize, paganize, pall, parallel, pass, patent, personalize, piggyback, pine away, plasticize, play out, poison, polarize, politicize, port, prim, professionalize, promote, proof, prostrate, purify, put, radicalize, rarefy, rationalize, ravel, recede, receive, recombine, recommend, reconstruct, refine, reflate, reform, refresh, regenerate, regress, rejuvenate, relax, remodel, reorient, repress, restore, resume, reticulate, revolutionize, right, ripen, rise, roll, romanticize, round off, rusticate, salinate, sanitize, saponify, saturate, sauce, schematize, scramble, sensitize, sentimentalize, separate, sequester, set, settle, sexualize, shade, shake, shallow, shape, sharpen, shear, shift, shorten, simplify, slacken, slenderize, slow, smoothen, smut, sober, socialize, soften, solarize, solemnize, solvate, spice, spike, spot, sputter, stabilize, stagnate, stain, steepen, stiffen, still, straighten, stratify, strengthen, string, sublime, subside, substitute, suburbanize, suffuse, superannuate, supercharge, supple, suspend, sweeten, swing, switch, symmetrize, synchronize, synthesize, tame, tease, tender, tense, territorialize, thicken, think, tighten, tone down, touch, transaminate, transfigure, transform, transitivize, translate, transmute, transpire, transpose, turn, turn back, turn on, uglify, ulcerate, unclutter, undergo, undulate, uniformize, unite, unsanctify, unscramble, unsex, untie, untune, urbanize, validate, variegate, vascularize, ventilate, verbify, vesiculate, visualize, vitalize, vitrify, vivify, volatilize, vulcanize, vulgarise, warm, warm up, weaken, weaponize, wet, widen, wilt, worsen

Hyponyms (Specific examples)(下位語): relax, ruffle, scarify, slack, slacken, unscrew

Derivationally Related Words(派生語)

Derivationally Related Words: loosening, relaxation, teaser, undoer, undoing, untier, untying

Categories(カテゴリー)

Domain Categories: general

Usage Category: common

Usage Context: descriptive

Grammatical Notes:
intransitive verb, transitive verb

Prefixes/Suffixes(接頭辞/接尾辞)

Prefixes(接頭辞):

Suffixes(接尾辞): en

Exam Level

英検準1級

Media Appearance(メディア登場例)

Books(洋書): Holes

Movies(映画): Finding Nemo

Other Information(その他)

Is Abstract?(抽象的な言葉?) No

Is Emotion Word?(感情的な言葉?) No

Emotion Categories: