To lease again or anew.
noun.
See combination button.
To let loose; set free from restraint or confmement; liberate, as from prison, confinement, or servitude.
To free from pain, care, trouble, grief, or any other evil.
To free from obligation or penalty: as, to release one from debt, or from a promise or covenant.
To forgive.
To quit; let go, as a legal claim; remit; surrender or relinquish: as, to release a debt, or to release a right to lands or tenements by conveying to another already having some right or estate in possession.
To relax.
To let slip; let go; give up.
To take out of pawn. Nabbes, The Bride (4 to, 1640), sig. F. iv.
noun.
Liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage.
noun.
Liberation from care, pain, or any burden.
noun.
Discharge from obligation or responsibility, as from debt, tax, penalty, or claim of any kind; acquittance.
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In law, a surrender of a right; a remission of a claim in such form as to estop the grantor from asserting it. again.
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In a steam-engine, the opening of the exhaust-port before the stroke is finished, to lessen the back-pressure.
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In archery, the act of letting go the bowstring in shooting; the mode of performing this act, which differs among different peoples.
noun.
=Syn. 1–3. Deliverance, excuse, exemption, exoneration, absolution, clearance. See the verb.