loosen
abate, bate, cast off, cushion, cut apart, detach, diffuse, discharge, disengage, disjoin, disperse, doff, ease, ease off, ease up,
contraption - apparatus, contrivance, device, gadget, gimcrack, gimmick, hand tool, implement, instrument, means, mechanical device, mechanism, power tool, precision tool, speed tool,
set by - adjourn, conserve, continue, defer, delay, drag out, extend, hang fire, hang up, hold back, hold off, hold over, hold up, husband, keep,
jury box - court, courthouse, dock, town hall ,
cheapness - avarice, closeness, gaudiness, meanness, nearness, sadness, tightness ,
palette knife - brush, buffer, canvas, chalk, charcoal, crayon, drier, easel, fixative, ground, lathe, lay figure, medium, paint, paintbrush,
empty view - air space, back country, clearance, clearing, desert, glade, outback, plain, prairie, steppe, terrain, territory, wilderness ,
banded - barred, brindle, brindled, listed, marbled, streaked, streaky, striate, striated, striped, stripy, tabby, veined, watered ,
shrink from - disapprove of, draw, dread, fear, flinch, grimace, hang, hate, hesitate, loathe, recoil, revolt, scruple, shirk, shrink,
defeatist - Cassandra, calamity howler, cynic, cynical, dismal, downbeat, gloomy, killjoy, negative, nihilist, nihilistic, pessimist, pessimistic, prophet of doom, seek-sorrow,
lamentable - abominable, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal,
set by - adjourn, conserve, continue, defer, delay, drag out, extend, hang fire, hang up, hold back, hold off, hold over, hold up, husband, keep,
jury box - court, courthouse, dock, town hall ,
cheapness - avarice, closeness, gaudiness, meanness, nearness, sadness, tightness ,
palette knife - brush, buffer, canvas, chalk, charcoal, crayon, drier, easel, fixative, ground, lathe, lay figure, medium, paint, paintbrush,
empty view - air space, back country, clearance, clearing, desert, glade, outback, plain, prairie, steppe, terrain, territory, wilderness ,
banded - barred, brindle, brindled, listed, marbled, streaked, streaky, striate, striated, striped, stripy, tabby, veined, watered ,
shrink from - disapprove of, draw, dread, fear, flinch, grimace, hang, hate, hesitate, loathe, recoil, revolt, scruple, shirk, shrink,
defeatist - Cassandra, calamity howler, cynic, cynical, dismal, downbeat, gloomy, killjoy, negative, nihilist, nihilistic, pessimist, pessimistic, prophet of doom, seek-sorrow,
lamentable - abominable, affecting, afflictive, aggrieved, anguished, arrant, atrocious, awful, base, beastly, beneath contempt, bitter, blameworthy, bleak, brutal,