Synonyms

release let_go relinquish

Examples

"Let go of the door handle, please!" "relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall"

Used in print

The Macmillan government might be willing to let him go , but he has been dead seventy-eight years and even the Soviet morticians could not make him look presentable .

She just_about made me carry her upstairs and_then she clung_to me and would n't let me go .

It made him a_little sick , and he let_go_of her .

Related terms

hold disengage bring_out unleash unleash unclasp unleash trigger unhand pop toggle discharge relinquishment