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loosens someone's tongue

loosens someone's tongue is the third-person singular simple present indicative of loosen someone's tongue.

Meaning of loosen someone's tongue

Verb

loosen someone's tongue (third-person singular simple present loosens someone's tongue, present participle loosening someone's tongue, simple past and past participle loosened someone's tongue)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To cause one to speak more freely; to cause one to discuss a subject that would not usually be discussed.
    • He made a long stay in the dining-room after dinner, and, I fear, took an unusual quantity of wine, but not enough to loosen his tongue: for when he came in and found me quietly occupied with my book, too busy to lift my head on his entrance, he merely murmured an expression of suppressed...1848, Anne Brontë, chapter 24, in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Questions about loosens someone's tongue

What is loosens someone's tongue the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Loosens someone's tongue is the third-person singular simple present indicative of loosen someone's tongue.

Words near loosens someone's tongue in the dictionary

  1. loosening the purse strings
  2. loosening up
  3. loosening ups
  4. loosenings
  5. loosens
  6. loosens someone's tongue
  7. loosens the apron strings
  8. loosens the purse strings
  9. loosens up
  10. looser
  11. looser-fitting

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