Definitions For Release

noun

  • The act of liberating someone or something
  • (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone
  • A formal written statement of relinquishment
  • The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
  • The act of allowing a fluid to escape
  • Activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion
  • Merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)
  • A device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism
  • A legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation
  • An announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation
  • Euphemistic expressions for death
  • A process that liberates or discharges something

verb

  • Generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids
  • Eliminate (a substance)
  • Make (assets) available
  • Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale
  • Let (something) fall or spill from a container
  • Release, as from one's grip
  • Release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
  • Part with a possession or right
  • Grant freedom to; free from confinement
  • Make (information) available for publication
  • To allow (a person or animal) to leave a jail, cage, prison, etc. : to set (someone or something) free
  • To stop holding (someone or something)
  • To allow (a substance) to enter the air, water, soil, etc.

Is Release a Scrabble Word?

Words With Friends YES
Scrabble US YES
Scrabble UK YES
English International (SOWPODS) YES
Scrabble Global YES
Enable1 Dictionary YES

Points in Different Games

Scrabble
7
Words with Friends
8

The word Release is worth 7 points in Scrabble and 8 points in Words with Friends

Examples of Release in a Sentence

  • The hostages have been released.
  • The judge released the prisoner.
  • The lion was released from its cage.
  • The release of the hostages
  • The prisoner is eligible for early release.
  • There was a controversy over the release of wolves into the park.

Synonyms for Release

Antonyms for Release

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