release

1. (noun) (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
Synonyms: tone ending
Related Words: conclusion, ending, explosion, plosion, termination

2. (noun) a formal written statement of relinquishment
Synonyms: discharge, waiver
Related Words: exemption, granting immunity, immunity, relinquishing, relinquishment

3. (noun) activity that releases or expresses creative energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"
Synonyms: outlet
Related Words: activity

4. (verb) part with
Synonyms: free, give up, relinquish
Related Words: derequisition, give, give, hand, pass, pass on, reach, sacrifice, turn over

5. (noun) something issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film); "a new release from the London Symphony Orchestra"
Related Words: merchandise, product, wares

6. (noun) a process that liberates or discharges something; "there was a sudden release of oxygen"; "the release of iodine from the thyroid gland"
Related Words: action, activity, emission, natural action, natural process

7. (verb) generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"
Synonyms: secrete
Related Words: exudate, exude, ooze, ooze out, transude, water

8. (noun) the act of liberating someone or something
Synonyms: liberation
Related Words: deliverance, delivery, disentanglement, emancipation, extrication, freeing, jail delivery, probation, relief, rescue, saving, unsnarling, untangling

9. (verb) release something from a container
Synonyms: turn
Related Words: channel, channelize, deflate, throw, transfer, transmit, transport

10. (verb) make available or free for sale or publication
Synonyms: free
Related Words: declassify, issue, supply

11. (noun) a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation
Synonyms: acquittance
Related Words: instrument, legal document, legal instrument, official document

12. (noun) the act of allowing a fluid to escape
Synonyms: spill, spillage
Related Words: flow, stream

13. (verb) release, as from one's hands; "Let go of the door handle, please!"
Synonyms: let go, let go of
Related Words: bring out, discharge, disengage, let loose, let out, loose, muster out, toggle, trigger, unclasp, unhand, unleash, withdraw

14. (verb) grant freedom to; free from confinement
Synonyms: free, liberate, loose, unloose
Related Words: bail out, parole, run, unchain, unspell

15. (noun) an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
Synonyms: handout, press release
Related Words: announcement

16. (verb) eliminate, as of bodily substances
Synonyms: discharge, eject, expel
Related Words: abort, bleed, blow, breathe, cough out, cough up, egest, ejaculate, eliminate, emit, empty, evacuate, excrete, expectorate, fester, give off, hemorrhage, ovulate, pass, pass off, shed blood, spit up, suppurate, void

17. (verb) make available, as of assets; or free for sale or publication
Synonyms: free, unblock, unfreeze
Related Words: issue, supply

18. (noun) the act of terminating someone's employment
Synonyms: discharge, dismissal, firing, liberation, sack, sacking
Related Words: Section Eight, conclusion, conge, deactivation, dishonorable discharge, ending, inactivation, removal, termination

19. (verb) publish a magazine or newspaper, for example
Synonyms: bring out, issue, publish, put out
Related Words: air, bare, publicise, publicize

20. (noun) euphemistic expressions for death; "thousands mourned his passing"
Synonyms: departure, exit, expiration, going, loss, passing
Related Words: death, decease



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