Release Definition

rĭ-lēs

released, releases, releasing

verb

released, releases, releasing

To set free, as from confinement, duty, work, etc.

Webster's New World

To let go or let loose.

To release an arrow.

Webster's New World

To grant freedom from a tax, penalty, obligation, etc.

Webster's New World

To cause or allow to move away or spread from a source or place of confinement.

Cells that release histamine.

American Heritage

To make available for use.

Released the funds for the project.

American Heritage

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noun

releases

A setting free or being set free; deliverance; liberation.

Webster's New World

Discharge from an obligation or commitment.

American Heritage

A freeing or being freed from a tax, obligation, etc.

Webster's New World

A relief from pain, cares, etc.

Webster's New World

Relief from emotional tension through a spontaneous, uninhibited expression of an emotion.

Webster's New World

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Origin of Release

Middle English relesen from Old French relaissier alteration of relacher from Latin relaxāre relax

From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
From Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).

From Wiktionary
re- +"Ž lease

From Wiktionary