1. To give up a legal right. 2. A document inwhich a legal right is given up.
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
release (verb)transitive verb
1.
to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude - release hostages release pent-up emotions release the brakes , also to let go - dismiss released from her job
2.
to relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses - was released from her promise
3.
to give up in favor of another - relinquish release a claim to property
4.
intransitive verb
to give permission for publication, performance, exhibition, or sale of , also to make available to the public - the commission released its findings release a new movie to move from one's normal position (as in football or basketball) in order to assume another position or to perform a second assignment free
1.
relief or deliverance from sorrow, suffering, or trouble
2.
a) discharge from obligation or responsibility
b) (1) relinquishment of a right or claim
(2) an act by which a legal right is discharged , specifically a conveyance of a right in lands or tenements to another having an estate in possession
3.
a) the act or an instance of liberating or freeing (as from restraint)
b) the act or manner of concluding a musical tone or phrase
c) the act or manner of ending a sound the movement of one or more vocal organs in quitting the position for a speech sound
d) the action or manner of throwing a ball - has a quick release
4.
an instrument effecting a legal release
5.
the state of being freed
6.
a device adapted to hold or release a mechanism as required
7.
a) the act of permitting performance or publication , also - performance publication became a best seller on its release
b) the matter - released , especially a statement prepared for the press
Merriam-Webster Online Thesaurus
release (noun)1.
a freeing from an obligation or responsibility
SYNONYMS:
delivery, discharge, quietus, quittanceRELATED WORDS:
dispensation, exemption, immunity, waiver2.
a document containing a declaration of an intentional giving up of a right, claim, or privilege
SYNONYMS:
disclaimer, quitclaim, releaseRELATED WORDS:
dispensation, exemption, indemnity; abdication, relinquishment, renouncement; handover, renunciation, surrender3.
a published statement informing the public of a matter of general interest
SYNONYMS:
ad, advert, advertisement, bulletin, communiqué, notice, notification, posting, releaseRELATED WORDS:
broadside, brochure, circular, flyer ( flier), fly sheet, gazette [], handbill, handout; bill, billboard, placard, playbill, poster, show bill, sign; broadcast, cablecast, newscast, telecast; advertising, billing, blurb, come-on, commercial, message, pitch, plugola, spot, word; communication, dispatch, report; annunciation, declaration, edict, proclamation, promulgation, pronouncement, pronunciamento, rescript, signification; ballyhoo, boost, buildup, campaign, plug, promo, promotion, propaganda, publicity4.
reduction of or freedom from pain
SYNONYMS:
alleviation, comfort, release, reliefRELATED WORDS:
appeasement, assuagement, decrease, diminishment, mitigation, moderation, mollification; calming, salving, soothingNEAR ANTONYMS:
discomfort, unrest; agony, anguish, misery, suffering, torment, torture; ache, pain, pang, prick, smart, sting, stitch, throe, tingle, twinge1.
to set free (from a state of being held in check)
SYNONYMS:
loose, loosen, uncork, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosenRELATED WORDS:
discharge, emancipate, enfranchise, free, liberate, manumit, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter, unmoor, unshackle; air, express, take out, ventNEAR ANTONYMS:
handcuff, manacle, shackle, trammel; bind, confine, enchain, fetter; halter, hamper2.
to find emotional release for
SYNONYMS:
loose, release, unleash, ventRELATED WORDS:
act out; air, express, state, ventilate, voiceNEAR ANTONYMS:
control, govern, handle, manage; bridle, check, constrain, contain, curb, hold back, pull in, quell, rein (in), restrain, smother, tame; allay, lull, quiet, soothe, still; choke, inhibit, muffle, pocket, repress, stifle, strangle, swallow3.
to set free (as from slavery or confinement)
SYNONYMS:
discharge, disenthrall ( disenthral), emancipate, enfranchise, enlarge, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetterRELATED WORDS:
bail (out), deliver, parole, ransom, redeem, rescue, save; adrift, disembarrass, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, extricate; unshackleNEAR ANTONYMS:
handcuff, manacle, shackle, trammel; commit, immure, imprison, incarcerate, intern, jail, lock (up); conquer, enslave, subdue, subjugate4.
to set free from entanglement or difficulty
SYNONYMS:
clear, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, free, liberate, release, untangleRELATED WORDS:
deliver, redeem, rescue, save; disburden, disencumber, unburden; unravel, unsnarl, untie, untwineNEAR ANTONYMS:
block, hamper, hinder, impede, obstruct; burden, encumber, load, weigh5.
to throw or give off
SYNONYMS:
cast, discharge, emanate, evolve, exhale, expel, expire, give out, irradiate, issue, radiate, release, send (out), shoot, throw out, ventRELATED WORDS:
eliminate, evacuate, excrete, exude, ooze, secrete; eject, erupt, gush, jet, outpour, pour, spew, spout, spray, spurt, squirtNEAR ANTONYMS:
absorb, inhale, soak (up), sponge, suck (up), take up6.
to make known openly or publicly
SYNONYMS:
advertise, annunciate, blare, blaze, blazon, broadcast, declare, enunciate, flash, give out, herald, placard, post, proclaim, promulgate, publicize, publish, release, sound, trumpetRELATED WORDS:
bark, call (off out), cry; bill, billboard, bulletin, gazette []; knell, ring, toll; blurb, feature, pitch, plug, promote, puff; disseminate, spread; disclose, divulge, introduce, kithe [], manifest, report, reveal, show; advise, apprise, hand down, inform, notify; communicate, impart, intimateNEAR ANTONYMS:
conceal, hush (up), silence, suppress, withhold; recall, recant, retract, revoke7.
to let go from office, service, or employment
SYNONYMS:
ax ( axe), bounce, can, cashier, discharge, fire, muster out, pink-slip, release, remove, retire, sack, terminate, turn offRELATED WORDS:
downsize, excess, furlough, lay off, trim; boot (out), chuck (out), drum (out), kick out, throw out, unseat; separateNEAR ANTONYMS:
keep; reemploy, rehire; contract, subcontract; recruit
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