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▸ verb:  To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
▸ verb:  To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
▸ verb:  To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
▸ verb:  To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
▸ verb:  To expel or let go.
▸ verb:  To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
▸ verb:  (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
▸ verb:  To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
▸ verb:  (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
▸ verb:  (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
▸ verb:  To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
▸ verb:  To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
▸ verb:  (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
▸ verb:  To unload a ship or another means of transport.
▸ verb:  To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
▸ verb:  To give forth; to emit or send out.
▸ verb:  To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
▸ verb:  (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
▸ verb:  (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
▸ noun:  The act of expelling or letting go.
▸ noun:  (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
▸ noun:  (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
▸ noun:  The material thus released.
▸ noun:  The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
▸ noun:  The process of removing the load borne by something.
▸ noun:  The process of flowing out.
▸ noun:  (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
▸ noun:  (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
▸ noun:  (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
▸ noun:  The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.
▸ noun:  (law) Release from liability, as granted to someone having served in a position of trust, such as to the officers and governors of a corporate body.

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