verb
- Release, as from one's grip.
- usage: "Let go of the door handle, please"; "relinquish your grip on the rope-you won't fall"
- synonyms: let go of, let go, release, relinquish
- Grant freedom to; free from confinement.
- Let (something) fall or spill from a container.
- usage: "turn the flour onto a plate"
- Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale.
- usage: "publish a magazine or newspaper"
- Eliminate (a substance. )
- usage: "combustion products are exhausted in the engine"; "the plant releases a gas"
- Generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids.
- usage: "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream"
- Make (information) available for publication.
- usage: "release the list with the names of the prisoners"
- Part with a possession or right.
- usage: "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"
- synonyms: release, relinquish, resign, free, give up
- Release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition.
- Make (assets) available.
- usage: "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account"
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