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release - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | release |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | let go, let out |
| Synonyms: | absolve, acquit, bail out, clear, commute, deliver, discharge, disengage, dispense, drop, emancipate, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exonerate, extricate, free, give off, issue, leak, let off, liberate, loose, loosen, spring, surrender, turn out, undo, unfasten, unleash, untie, vent, yield, cast loose, give out, go easy on, let off steam, let up on, manumit, open up, set at large, set free, set loose, take out, turn loose, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unloose, unshackle, wipe slate clean |
| Antonyms: | collect, gather, hold, keep, maintain |
| Main Entry: | release |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delivery; dispensation |
| Synonyms: | absolution, acquittal, charge, clemency, commute, deliverance, discharge, emancipation, exemption, exoneration, freedom, freeing, liberation, liberty, manumission, relief, spring, turnout, acquittance, floater, let-off, lifeboat, lifesaver, walkout |
| Antonyms: | check, collection, gathering, hold |
| Main Entry: | release |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | publication |
| Synonyms: | announcement, flash*, handout, issue, leak, news, notice, offering, proclamation, propaganda, publicity, story |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | absolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | forgiveness |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, amnesty, forgiveness, mercy, pardon, release, compurgation, exculpation |
| Main Entry: | absolve |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | free from responsibility, duty |
| Synonyms: | acquit, bleach, clear, discharge, exculpate, excuse, exempt, exonerate, forgive, free, launder*, let off*, liberate, loose, pardon, release, relieve, sanitize*, spare, spring*, vindicate, whitewash, write off*, blink at, go easy on, let off easy, let off the hook, let up on, lifeboat, set free, wink at*, wipe it off, wipe the slate clean |
| Notes: | one is absolved of blame or responsibility but is acquitted of a charge, usually a crime |
| Antonyms: | bind, blame, charge, condemn, convict, hold, impeach, incriminate, obligate, punish, sentence |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | acquittal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | declaration removing blame |
| Synonyms: | absolution, amnesty, clearance, deliverance, discharge, dismissal, exemption, exoneration, freeing, liberation, pardon, release, reprieve, vindication, acquitting, discharging, dismissing, exculpation, letting off, releasing, relief from |
| Antonyms: | blame, censure, conviction, denunciation, doom, sentence |
| Main Entry: | announcement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | proclamation, declaration |
| Synonyms: | advertisement, advice, briefing, broadcast, broadcasting, bulletin, communication, disclosure, dissemination, edict, exposition, expression, intimation, message, narration, news, notice, notification, prediction, publication, recitation, release, report, reporting, revelation, statement, communiqué, divulgence, exposing, promulgation, publishing |
| Main Entry: | bulletin |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | message, notification |
| Synonyms: | account, announcement, break, calendar, communication, communiqué, dispatch, flash*, handout, hot wire, item, list, news, news flash*, notice, program, publication, release, report, scoop*, skinny*, statement, the dope, what's going down, what's happening |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | catharsis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | purging, purification |
| Synonyms: | ablution, purification, release, abreaction, cleansing, expurgation, lustration, purgation |
| Antonyms: | dirtying |
| Main Entry: | compact disc |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recording of music or speech |
| Synonyms: | album, cut*, cylinder, disk, record, release, track, CD, demo, digital recording, laser disk |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | death |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of life |
| Synonyms: | afterlife, bereavement, casualty, cessation, curtains*, darkness, decease, demise, departure, destruction, dissolution, downfall, dying, end, ending, eradication, euthanasia, exit, expiration, extinction, fatality, finish, grave, grim reaper*, heaven, loss, mortality, oblivion, paradise, parting, passing, quietus, release, repose, ruin, silence, sleep, termination, tomb, annihilation, eternal rest, extermination, finis, necrosis, obliteration, passing over, ruination |
| Antonyms: | being, birth, entity, existence, life, living |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | decease |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death |
| Synonyms: | curtains*, demise, departure, dissolution, dying, grim reaper*, passing, quietus, release, silence, sleep, buying the farm, defunction, passing away, passing over, taps, the end |
| Antonyms: | birth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | deliverance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liberation |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, delivery, emancipation, freeing, redemption, release, rescue, salvation, saving, extrication |
| Main Entry: | disengage |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | free from connection |
| Synonyms: | abstract, back off, back out, cut loose, cut out, detach, disassociate, disconnect, disentangle, disjoin, dissociate, disunite, divide, drop out, ease, extricate, liberate, loose, loosen, opt out, release, separate, undo, unfasten, untie, withdraw, pull the plug, set free, unbind, uncouple, unfix, unloose, weasel out |
| Antonyms: | attach, bind, connect, engage, fasten, join, unite |
| Main Entry: | edition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | issue of publication |
| Synonyms: | copy, impression, imprint, number, printing, program, publication, release, version, volume, reissue, reprint, reprinting |
| Main Entry: | emancipate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set free |
| Synonyms: | deliver, discharge, disencumber, enfranchise, liberate, loose, loosen, release, affranchise, disenthral, manumit, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unshackle |
| Antonyms: | hold, imprison, incarcerate |
| Main Entry: | emancipation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | deliverance, delivery, independence, liberation, liberty, release, enfranchisement, setting free |
| Main Entry: | empty |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | remove contents |
| Synonyms: | clear, consume, decant, deplete, discharge, disgorge, drain, drink, dump, ebb, eject, escape, evacuate, exhaust, expel, gut, leak, leave, purge, release, run out, tap, unburden, unload, vacate, void, flow out, make void, pour out, rush out, use up |
| Antonyms: | fill |
| Main Entry: | enfranchise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set free |
| Synonyms: | emancipate, empower, free, liberate, naturalize, release, citizenize, give rights to, grant citizenship to, manumit |
| Antonyms: | enslave |
| Main Entry: | escape |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | breaking away; getaway |
| Synonyms: | avoidance, beat, bolt, break, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, evasion, evasiveness, flight, freedom, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, slip, spring, withdrawal, AWOL, abdication, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, runaround, shunning, sidestepping |
| Antonyms: | capture, maintenance, stay |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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