v To accomplish or complete, as an obligation.
v To free of a debt, claim, obligation, responsibility, accusation, etc.; to absolve; to acquit; to forgive; to clear.
v To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to.
v To set aside; to annul; to dismiss.
v To expel or let go.
v To let fly, as a missile; to shoot.
v (electricity) To release (an accumulated charge).
v To relieve of an office or employment; to send away from service; to dismiss.
v (medicine) To release (an inpatient) from hospital.
v (military) To release (a member of the armed forces) from service.
v To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty.
v To operate (any weapon that fires a projectile, such as a shotgun or sling).
v (logic) To release (an auxiliary assumption) from the list of assumptions used in arguments, and return to the main argument.
v To unload a ship or another means of transport.
v To put forth, or remove, as a charge or burden; to take out, as that with which anything is loaded or filled.
v To give forth; to emit or send out.
v To let fly; to give expression to; to utter.
v (transitive, textiles) To bleach out or to remove or efface, as by a chemical process.
v (obsolete, Scotland) To prohibit; to forbid.
n The act of expelling or letting go.
n (medicine) The act of releasing an inpatient from hospital.
n (military) The act of releasing a member of the armed forces from service.
n The act of firing a projectile, especially from a firearm.
n The process of removing the load borne by something.
n The process of flowing out.
n (medicine, uncountable) Pus or exudate or mucus (but in modern usage not exclusively blood) from a wound or orifice, usually due to pathological or hormonal changes.
n (electricity) The act of releasing an accumulated charge.
n (hydrology) The volume of water transported by a river in a certain amount of time, usually in units of m³/s (cubic meters per second).
n The act of accomplishing (an obligation) or repaying a debt etc.; performance.