tightened, stiffened, toughened, softened, eased, clamped, slackened, lifted, relaxed, cracked, shored, buckled, strengthened, chafed, warmed, ratcheted, tweaked, changed, cinched, constricting, ramped, perked, slowed, lightened, lowered, weakened, stretched, frayed, flexed, liberalized, straining, chaffed, squeezed, pried, straightened, yanked, beefed, worsened, curbed, dried, lengthened, deteriorated, wrenched, reimposed, eroded, calmed, stepped, lessened, broken, curtailed, jarred, severed, crimped, choked, fasten, caved, dislodged, pinched, ratcheting, altered, clammed, buttoned, pushed, shake, reshaped, speeded, unfastened, withered, broadened, harden, dampened, subsided, imposed, tapered, cooled, freed, reined, thawed, improved, snapped, messed, propped, shrunk, chinked, cemented, unknotted, screwed, tamps, crumbled, wrapped, rearranged, trimmed, solidified, diminished, unraveled, roughened, removed, stripped, relented, mended, unshackle, smoothened, abigail, addition, adventure, alan, alex, alice, amanda, amy, andy, angelo, anna, anybody, anyone, archie, armand, armful, armstrong, baby, ballet, barbecue, loose, weathered, discolored, exfoliated, charred, discoloured, fissured, disintegrated, overlying, abraded, crumbly, encrusted, necrosed, unweathered, vitrified, friable, imbedded, superincumbent

loose, loosen, playfully, worrying

disentangled, unsnarled, untangled