noun, verb ·3 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The act by which something is released.

   "It would be quite unnecessary to traverse year by year the records of importations of eggs and releasings of fry."

Verb

1. 1
   present participle and gerund of release form-of, gerund, participle, present

Adjective

1. 1
   emotionally purging (of e.g. art) wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

catharticclearingdisengagementdisentanglementemotionalextrication

Example

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"We're releasing all the sentences we collect under the Creative Commons Attribution license."

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