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Adjective releasing has 1 sense
- cathartic, releasing - emotionally purging (of e.g. art)
Antonym: unemotional (indirect, via emotional)
Verb release has 9 senses
- let go of, let go, release, relinquish - release, as from one's grip; "Let go of the door handle, please!"; "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall"
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
- free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose - grant freedom to; free from confinement
Sample sentence:
They want to release the prisoners
- turn, release - let (something) fall or spill a container; "turn the flour onto a plate"
--3 is one way to transmit, transfer, transport, channel, channelize, channelise
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something PP
- discharge, expel, eject, release - eliminate (substances) from the body
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- publish, bring out, put out, issue, release - prepare and issue for public distribution or sale; "publish a magazine or newspaper"
--5 is one way to publicize, publicise, air, bare
Sample sentence:
Sam and Sue release the movie
- secrete, release - generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids; "secrete digestive juices"; "release a hormone into the blood stream"
--6 is one way to exude, exudate, transude, ooze out, ooze
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- free, release - make (information) available publication; "release the list with the names of the prisoners"
--7 is one way to issue, supply
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- release, relinquish, resign, free, give up - part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"
--8 is one way to pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- unblock, unfreeze, free, release - make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account"
--9 is one way to issue, supply
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
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