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To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
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To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
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To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
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To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
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To expel or let go.
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To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
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(electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
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To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
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To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
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To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
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(logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
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To unload a ship or another means of transport.
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To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
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To give forth; to emit or send out.
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To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
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(transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
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(obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.