Loose and Shuts

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Loose verb - To cause (a projectile) to be driven forward with force.

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Shuts is an antonym for loose.

Nearby Words: loosen, looseness, loosed, loosely

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Loose is an antonym for shuts in close topic.

Even if you try to go the boring route and leave the machine alone, at one point it shuts down, giving you no other option than to turn it to the maximum setting marked with a skull, which naturally causes all hell to break loose.

Source: But Thou Must!

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Shuts and Loose. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/loose/shuts

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