releasing

re·lease  (r-ls)

tr.v. re·leased, re·leas·ing, re·leas·es

1. To set free from confinement, restraint, or bondage: released the prisoners.

2. To free from something that binds, fastens, or holds back; let go: released the balloons; released a flood of questions.

3. To dismiss, as from a job.

4. To relieve of debt or obligation.

5. To relieve of care and suffering.

6.

a. To issue for performance, sale, publication, or distribution.

b. To make known or available.

7. To relinquish (a right or claim).

n.

1. A deliverance or liberation, as from confinement, restraint, or suffering.

2. An authoritative discharge, as from an obligation or from prison.

3. An unfastening or letting go of something caught or held fast.

4. A device or catch for locking or releasing a mechanism.

5.

a. The act or an instance of issuing something for publication, use, or distribution.

b. Something thus released: a new release of a software program.

c. The condition of being available, in use, or in publication: a movie in wide release.

6. Law

a. Relinquishment to another of a right, title, or claim.

b. The document authorizing such relinquishment.

7. Linguistics The movement of a vocal organ or organs so as to end the closure of a stop consonant.

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[Middle English relesen, from Old French relaissier, alteration of relacher, from Latin relaxre; see relax.]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

releasing - emotionally purging (of e.g. art) cathartic artistic creation, artistic production, art - the creation of beautiful or significant things; "art does not need to be innovative to be good"; "I was never any good at art"; "he said that architecture is the art of wasting space beautifully" emotional - of more than usual emotion; "his behavior was highly emotional"