untighten

I sigh; the knot in my stomach slowly untightens. My head is buzzing from explosions, but I push myself from the bed and crawl to the window.

And I untightened next the tress About her neck; her cheek once more Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss: I propped her head up as before ..............................

"Immersing yourself in warm water untightens tense muscles.

If the connector remained untightened, invasive moisture would eventually destroy the expensive antenna cables.

Slewing with the Edmund telescope worked best with the tension knobs untightened; the friction was adequate to prevent slipping.

This animating move sounds rapturous in Browning's Shelleyan terms, but the terms of his poem reveal its gleeful sadism: "And I untightened next the tress / About her neck; her cheek once more / Blushed bright beneath my burning kiss," the narrator tells us, clearly delighting in his strangulation (ll.

The high sensitivity detects hard-to-measure conditions such as corroded connection terminal, partially mated (untightened) connectors, dented cables, moisture and damaged lightning arrestors.