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06/07/2020

The Difference between LOSE and LOOSE:

(a verb): [past tense: LOST; past participle: LOST]
1. To be unable to find something/somebody
2. To have a thing or someone taken away from you for one reason or another.
3. To have less of something., etc.

SENTENCE SAMPLES:
1. You will that key if you don't keep it well.
2. Some people had everything because of them then.
3. She seemed to have interest in the deals., etc.

(an adjective, a verb and a noun): (past tense: LOOSED: past participle: LOOSED)
(Adj.) 1. If something is not fixed or tied well to a position.
2. When clothes don't fit closely.
3. Having an attitude to sexual relations that are perceived to be immoral., etc.

(Vb.) 1. To let things happen at will or be expressed in an uncontrollable fashion.
2. To make something that is tied less tied.
3. To fire bullets, arrows, darts, etc.

(N.) 1. ON THE LOOSE(idiom): having escaped from somewhere; someone or an animal that is free.

SENTENCE SAMPLES:
1. (Adj) There is a loose tooth on that gum.
2. (Adj) I don't wear loose skirts.
3. (Adj) I really appreciate the frankness of loose ladies.

1. (Vb) His writing finally the tension between the two factions.
2. (Vb) He loosed the ropes holding the planks.
3. (Vb) The police loose it at them any time.

1. (N.) The prisoners are still on the loose.

NB: the noun for LOSE is LOSS.
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