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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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Etymology of 'Releasing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... incantations also by which distempers are alleviated. And he left behind him the manner of using exorcisms, by which they drive away demons, so that they never return; and this method of cure is of great force unto this day; for I have seen a certain man of my own country, whose name was Eleazar, releasing people that were demoniacal in the presence of Vespasian, and his sons, and his captains, and the whole multitude of his soldiers. The manner of the cure was this: He put a ring that had a Foot of one of those ...

— The Antiquities of the Jews • Flavius Josephus

... the girl, caught her by one arm roughly. She struggled fiercely, silently, striking at him with her free fist. Mormon's gun flashed from its sheath as he shouted at the man. Plimsoll wheeled, releasing Molly. His dark face was livid with rage, a pistol gleamed as he plucked it from beneath the waistband of his riding breeches. The turf spatted between his feet ...

— Rimrock Trail • J. Allan Dunn

... chuckled Roderick, releasing his grasp of the man.— "His bosom serpent has stung ...

— Mosses from an Old Manse and Other Stories • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... supplanter (he was a Highland chief in league with the Whigs) by the leg, while the exiled fellow was Jacobite, so as to have the songs dear to the feminine mind. They get wrecked on the island, and are terrified by the elves into releasing Alonso, etc. Meantime Ferdinand carries logs, forgathers with Miranda and Prospero-and ends-" He ...

— The Long Vacation • Charlotte M. Yonge

... the principal parts of these batteries. It was known long ago that there was about as much imprisoned solar energy in limestone as in coal, but it was only recently that we discovered this way of releasing and ...

— A Journey in Other Worlds - A Romance of the Future • John Jacob Astor

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