Definitions for release

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release re·lease

Spelling: [ri-lees]

IPA: /rɪˈlis/

Release is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 123 anagrams from letters in release (aeeelrs).

Definitions for release

noun

1. a freeing or releasing from confinement, obligation, pain, emotional strain, etc.
2. liberation from anything that restrains or fastens.
3. some device or agency for effecting such liberation.
4. a grant of permission, as to publish, use, or sell something.
5. the releasing of something for publication, performance, use, exhibition, or sale.
6. the film, book, record, etc., that is released.
7. press release.
8. Law. the surrender of a right or the like to another. a document embodying such a surrender.
9. Law Obsolete. a remission, as of a debt, tax, or tribute.
10. Machinery. a control mechanism for starting or stopping a machine, especially by removing some restrictive apparatus. the opening of an exhaust port or valve at or near the working stroke of an engine so that the working fluid can be exhausted on the return stroke. the point in the stroke of an engine at which the exhaust port or valve is opened.
11. (in jazz or popular music) a bridge.
12. a contract for re-leasing land or property.
13. the land or property re-leased.

verb (used with object)

1. to free from confinement, bondage, obligation, pain, etc.; let go:
2. to free from anything that restrains, fastens, etc.:
3. to allow to be known, issued, done, or exhibited:
4. Law. to give up, relinquish, or surrender (a right, claim, etc.).
5. to lease again.
6. Law. to make over (land, property, etc.), as to another.

Origin of release

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English reles(s)en Old French relesser, relaissier Latin relaxāre to loosen (see relax); (noun) Middle English reles(e) Old French reles, rela

Examples for release

Until that ecstasy of release should come, he would do his duty,—yes, his duty.

The United States government might not release that information for years, if ever.

release can come only when the race at large is willing to cast the evil thing off.

The “nature of the crime” was too serious to release him, they said.

Rashad was there to celebrate the release of the Civil Rights drama Selma.

And so, he says he left prison without proper ID, just his release papers and the “dress-out gear” he was given by the state.

It was as if some mighty pent force were struggling for release.

On his eighth try, more than three decades after he went in, the parole board finally voted to release Sam.

There was no joy over her release in his tones, nor pity for her condition.

Now I am advised by others to try on my release to forget that I have ever been in a prison at all.