RELEASE, RELEASED
ADJECTIVES
► MANUMISABLE capable of being released from a burden or obligation → 1773 obs.
NOUNS
► JUBILEE a time of restitution, remission, or release → c1584
► LAX relief, release → 1806 Sc. obs.
► LAXAMENT a release → 1623 obs.
► QUITTANCE act of freeing or clearing; release → c1225
VERBS
► BELEAVE to let go from one’s hold → a1225 obs.
► DIS ► DISS to release, to discharge, as from prison → 1990 US sl.
► LAX to release, to relax, to loosen → 1821 Sc. obs.
► LEASE to release, to let go, to unloose → 1882 Sc.
► LEESE to set free, to release → a900 obs.
► PULL OUT OF to be released → 1979 US sl.
► UNBIND to make free, to release from some legal restraint of obligation → 1297 obs.
► WALK to be released from prison or arrest → 1950s US prison & criminals’ sl.