Check and Loosen

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Check verb - To keep from exceeding a desirable degree or level (as of expression).

Usage example: check your enthusiasm a bit, and think before you marry someone you just met

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Loosen is an antonym for check.

Nearby Words: checked, checking, checkup, checker, checklist

Loosen verb - To set free (from a state of being held in check).

Usage example: the well-known fact that alcohol tends to loosen a person's inhibitions

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Check is an antonym for loosen.

Nearby Words: loose, looseness, loosely, loosening, loosener

back	check back	loosen back
teeth	check teeth	loosen teeth

Also Mathom of An who outrages his lords and his heir by leaving An to search - or so he says - for Morgon, thus allowing the bindings on the ancient and hostile ghosts he holds in check to loosen.

Source: Literature / The Riddle Master Trilogy
But it can be an annoying kind of play style, and several player's handbooks have attempted to disabuse clueless players of the notion that chaos is a blank check to loosen their screws.

Source: Chaotic Stupid

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