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/rilˈisɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Release v. t. To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.

Release v. t. (past & past part. released; pres. part. releasing)

To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go. "Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired."

To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.

(Law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.

To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance. (Obs.) "A sacred vow that none should aye release."

Synonyms: To free; liberate; loose; discharge; disengage; extricate; let go; quit; acquit.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Releasing" Quotes from Famous Books

... keep them on the surface instead of dragging them under. Above them and about them circled curious and hungry albatrosses, Cape hens, and mollyhawks. Even as I glimpsed the situation one of the big birds, a ten-footer at least, with a ten-inch beak to the fore, dropped down on the Italian. Releasing his hold with one hand, he struck with his knife at the bird. Feathers flew, and the albatross, deflected by the blow, ...

— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London

... and went round, releasing Max from the bonds the river had thrown about him in rolling him over and over, after which he forgot his dripping state, and walked ...

— Three Boys - or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai • George Manville Fenn

... as they felt the water upon them the flowers paid him back in perfume. The musk lifted up its head, and mingled with the late velvety wallflower and frilled carnation in releasing a wonder of expressed sweetness upon the ...

— Bog-Myrtle and Peat - Tales Chiefly Of Galloway Gathered From The Years 1889 To 1895 • S.R. Crockett

... Mr. Clifton for so long a time, without releasing me from my imprisonment, made me in hourly expectation of his return. I therefore did not stay to hesitate, but desired Laura to steal down stairs before me, and open the door, for that I was determined to ...

— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft

... leaped to the rescue. She was quite calm about it; the situation was too awful, the future too hopeless for mere tears. What had happened contained all the dignified elements of a catastrophe. They both realized it, and when, madly shoveling, he at last succeeded in releasing her she leaned her full weight on his own, breathing rapidly, and suffered him to support and guide her through the flame-shot darkness to ...

— The Green Mouse • Robert W. Chambers

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