Released RELE'ASED, pp. Set free from confinement; freed from obligation or liability; freed from pain; quitclaimed.

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.] 1. 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. 2. To relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses, as from pain, trouble, obligation, penalty. 3. (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. 4. 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.

112 Moby Thesaurus words for "released": abandoned, abjured, afoot and lighthearted, asleep, asleep in Jesus, at large, at liberty, at rest, bereft of life, breathless, called home, carrion, ceded, chartered, clear, croaked, dead, dead and gone, death-struck, deceased, defunct, delivered, demised, departed, departed this life, destitute of life, detached, disengaged, dispensed with, disposed of, done for, easygoing, emancipated, exanimate, excepted, excused, exempt, exempted, extricated, fallen, favored, finished, food for worms, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, forgone, forsworn, free, free and easy, free as air, freeborn, freed, go-as-you-please, gone, gone to glory, gone west, immune, in the clear, inanimate, irresponsible, late, late lamented, launched into eternity, let off, liberated, licensed, lifeless, loose, martyred, no more, on parole, on the loose, passed on, permitted, privileged, pushing up daisies, recanted, redeemed, relinquished, renounced, reposing, rescued, resting easy, retracted, sacrificed, sainted, scot-free, sleeping, smitten with death, spared, still, stillborn, surrendered, taken away, taken off, unaccountable, unanswerable, unattached, unbound, uncommitted, unengaged, uninvolved, unliable, unshackled, unsubject, untied, waived, with the Lord, with the saints, without life, without vital functions, yielded

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