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aloose

aloose adverb: free from restraints.

Adverb

aloose (not comparable)

  1. (dialectal) Free from restraints.
    • The reason she got to him quicker than I did is because Mooring did not turn me aloose as quick as Cox turned her aloose.1922, John Preston White, The Texas Criminal Reports
    • There's nothing but young girls live over there, work around the . . . Capitol buildings, State buildings . . . they were screaming that they had called the police, to turn me aloose. He turned my left hand aloose and started — he dropped it down on my leg.1968, North Carolina reports - Volume 273, page 511

aloose meaning in Tamil

aloose in Tamil

அப்பிரகத்தகடு

Examples of aloose in a sentence

  • Dey wuz constant a-gwine on data a-way, en ef I wa'n't gittin' so mighty weak-kneed in de membunce I'd bust aloose yer en I'd fair wake you up wid de gwines on er dem ar creeturs.1974, Joel Chandler Harris, Uncle Remus; Tales, page 167:
  • It took the undertaker and that big old strappin' teenage boy of his quite a while to pull him aloose.2006, Mary Monroe, God Don't Like Ugly:

Origin of aloose

From a- + loose.

Questions about aloose

What does aloose mean?
Aloose means free from restraints.
What is aloose in Tamil?
Aloose in Tamil is அப்பிரகத்தகடு. See Aloose meaning in Tamil.
How do you use aloose in a sentence?
Dey wuz constant a-gwine on data a-way, en ef I wa'n't gittin' so mighty weak-kneed in de membunce I'd bust aloose yer en I'd fair wake you up wid de gwines on er dem ar creeturs.
What part of speech is aloose?
Aloose is an adverb.

Words near aloose in the dictionary

  1. aloofly
  2. aloofness
  3. aloofnesses
  4. aloon-aloon
  5. aloos
  6. aloose
  7. alop
  8. alopecia
  9. alopecia adnata
  10. alopecia androgenetica
  11. alopecia areata

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Adapted from Wiktionary: aloose (page history and authors); aloose (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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