Loose and Sticks

Opposite meaning words

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

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Sticks is an antonym for loose.

Nearby Words: loosen, looseness, loosed, loosely

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Loose is an antonym for sticks in adhere topic.

Later, when all the monsters break loose, we see the branches of one grab a guard and pull it offscreen, presumably to stick its sticks where they don't belong.

Source: When Trees Attack
After nearly being assassinated by a Gaelic-speaking radical, he screams in pain (reasonably enough), then sticks his finger into the bullet hole and tastes his own blood, lets loose a monumental Cluster F-Bomb and furiously demands that the captured assassin speak English or he will kill him.

Source: Film / Gangs of New York

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