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loosing

loosing is the present participle and gerund of loose.

loosing is the early Modern form of lozenge.

loosing is the misspelling of losing.

Meaning of loose

Verb

loose (third-person singular simple present looses, present participle loosing, simple past and past participle loosed)

  1. (transitive) To let loose, to free from restraints.
    • Ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her; loose them, and bring them unto me.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 21:2
    Synonyms:
    free, release
  2. (transitive) To unfasten, to loosen.
  3. (transitive) To make less tight, to loosen.
    Synonyms:
    loosen, relax, slacken
  4. (intransitive) Of a grip or hold, to let go.
    Synonyms:
    let go, release
  5. To shoot (an arrow).
  6. (obsolete) To set sail.
    • Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Acts 13:13

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Meaning of lozenge

Noun

lozenge (plural lozenges)

  1. (shapes) A thin rhombus, having two acute and two obtuse angles.
    • Wherein the decussis is made within a longilaterall square, with opposite angles, acute and obtuse at the intersection; and so upon progression making a Rhombus or Lozenge figuration [...].1658, Sir Thomas Browne, The Garden of Cyrus, Folio Society, published 2007, page 167
    Synonyms:
    diamond
  2. A small tablet (originally diamond-shaped) or medicated sweet used to ease a sore throat.
    • One saint's day in mid-term a certain newly appointed suffragan-bishop came to the school chapel, and there preached on “The Inner Life.” He at once secured attention by his informal method, and when presently the coughing of Jarvis […] interrupted the sermon, he altogether captivated his audience...1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter III, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    pastille, throat pastille, troche, lozzy

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Forms of loosing

pluralloosings

Phrases with loosing

Questions about loosing

What is loosing the present participle and gerund of?
Loosing is the present participle and gerund of loose.

Words near loosing in the dictionary

  1. Looshans
  2. loosie
  3. loosier-goosier
  4. loosies
  5. loosiest-goosiest
  6. loosing
  7. loosing off
  8. loosing up
  9. loosings
  10. loosish
  11. Loosley

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Adapted from Wiktionary: loosing (page history and authors); loose (page history and authors); lozenge (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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