Loose and Nail

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Loose

Loose verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.
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Nail is an antonym for loose.
Nearby Words: loosen, looseness, loosed, loosely

Nail

Nail verb - To take or keep under one's control by authority of law.
Usage example: the very first time I tried to steal anything, I got nailed
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Loose is an antonym for nail in fasten topic.
Nearby Words: nailed, nailer, nailing
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Common collocations

shot loose shot nail shot

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  • Web Animation / Happy Tree Friends Handy looks like he's about to pierce his foot on a nail, but moves his foot away from it... just in time to knock the board loose and drive the nail through his skull.
    Source: Web Animation / Happy Tree Friends
  • Literature / The Ring In the first American movie, Samara's cursed tape features images of twitching severed fingers in a box, and a finger being impaled on a tack so that the whole nail is pushed loose.
    Source: Literature / The Ring
  • Red Herring Then she moves onto the horizontal bar, which looks dangerously loose... At which point, the next girl to use the beam steps on the nail and falls off, setting off a much shorter chain of events.
    Source: Red Herring
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