Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To release or loose from a leash.
- transitive verb To set free from restraints.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To free from a leash, or as from a leash; let go.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To free from a leash, or as from a leash; to let go; to release.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To free from a
leash , or as from a leash - verb to
let go ; torelease - verb soccer To
strike ;kick
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb release from a leash
- verb release or vent
- verb turn loose or free from restraint
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Examples
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December 7th, 2009 12: 29 pm ET favorable for what? what is she running for? what is her program - and for what? what does she stand for? can she articulate any of it? what did McCain unleash on us?
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Without a bold effort to shrink government and again unleash entrepreneurship, Mr. Pi ñ era will be unable to deliver on his campaign promise of 6% growth annually and 200,000 new jobs per year.
Now Free Chile Mary Anastasia O 2010
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And the vigilantism that Mr. Lindsay’s idea can unleash is scary.
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Aside from the awkwardness of the phrase unleash power for the sake of having a meaningful acronym, my complaint was that you couldn’t tell what the A stood for.
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A quick Google of your name can unleash ghosts from the past, so don't put anything out there if it doesn't represents you!
Nicole Forrester: Four Ways to Repel Women Nicole Forrester 2011
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A quick Google of your name can unleash ghosts from the past, so don't put anything out there if it doesn't represents you!
Nicole Forrester: Four Ways to Repel Women Nicole Forrester 2011
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If he is going down, and the U.S. is moving massively against him, will he do what he didn't do a dozen years ago, namely unleash weapons of mass destruction?
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Cut taxes, minimize business regulation, and "unleash" business, and what you really do is provoke economic crises too big for a weakened government to deal with.
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Starting in the late 1970s our country embarked on a grand real-time experiment to "unleash" the economy from government rules and oversight.
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Starting in the late 1970s our country embarked on a grand real-time experiment to "unleash" the economy from government rules and oversight.
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