Crossword clues for releasing
releasing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Release \Re*lease"\ (r?-l?s"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Released (r?*l?st"); p. pr. & vb. n. Releasing.] [OE. relessen, OF. relassier, to release, to let free. See Relay, n., Relax, and cf. Release to lease again.]
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To let loose again; to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude; to give liberty to, or to set at liberty; to let go.
Now at that feast he released unto them one prisoner, whomsoever they desired.
--Mark xv. 6. To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty.
(Law) To let go, as a legal claim; to discharge or relinquish a right to, as lands or tenements, by conveying to another who has some right or estate in possession, as when the person in remainder releases his right to the tenant in possession; to quit.
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To loosen; to relax; to remove the obligation of; as, to release an ordinance. [Obs.]
--Hooker.A sacred vow that none should aye release.
--Spenser.Syn: To free; liberate; loose; discharge; disengage; extricate; let go; quit; acquit.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of release English)
WordNet
adj. emotionally purging (of e.g. art) [syn: cathartic]
Usage examples of "releasing".
After a few steps the man stopped wide-eyed, releasing her hand, holding his erected cock.
She stood up, taking his booted foot between her legs, toe tip upon her bottom, and backed away, releasing the boot haphazardly.
Amelia bounded to her feet, releasing another dollop of cream down her legs.
Her lips held him only loosely until his spasms subsided, when she closed again for a few seconds before fully releasing him.
She nodded vigorously without releasing him, then reluctantly raised her head.
He knelt at the nipples, releasing her to sit upon the floor before him, meaning to lean over to drink.
She led Jane and Margaret, reluctantly releasing Xaefyer, to the blue nipples and demonstrated their use.
You must walk into the surface of the door, releasing the knob as you pass.
Surprisingly her hand slipped between them, fumbled at his hip, touched pubic hair, then grasped his manhood, raising it to a more comfortable position against her backbone before releasing him.
When they make it brown it shall become absorbent, capable of releasing the molecular bonds of non-living matter.
He stopped after two steps, releasing his guides, and looked right and left, up and down.
When the Commission police made their first move, the council would undoubtedly want to solve the problem by releasing him to them.
She fears the same thing you fear, releasing the anger and following her heart.
Dominique plunged forward, releasing Sera most ungracefully in a heap near the wall beneath a flaming rush light.
A very long time passed as she gauged his breaths, listening as they calmed, and his muscles relaxed, releasing his strife.