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  1. transitive verb To set free from confinement, restraint, or bondage: released the prisoners.
  2. transitive verb To free from something that binds, fastens, or holds back; let go: released the balloons; released a flood of questions.
  3. transitive verb To dismiss, as from a job.
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  1. Middle English relesen, from Old French relaissier, alteration of relacher, from Latin relaxāre; see relax.

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  1. from Middle English relesen, relessen, releschen, from OF, relaissier, relessier, relesser, release, let go. relinquish, quit, intransitive stop, cease, rest, French relaisser (also Old French relacher, relascher, French relâcher), relax, release, =Provencal relaxar, relachar =Spanish relajar =Portuguese relaxar =Italian relassare, rilassare, rilasciare, relax, release, from Latin relaxare, relax: see relax, of which release is a doublet. Cf. relay.
  2. from Middle English relees, reles, relece, from Old French reles, relez, relais, rellais, French relais =Italian rilascio, a release, relay; from the verb: see release, v., and cf. relay.
  3. from re- + lease.
 

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