All release antonyms
reΒ·lease
R r verb release
- make a killing β If you make a killing, you make a large profit very quickly and easily.
- fall away β to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- foraying β a quick raid, usually for the purpose of taking plunder: Vikings made a foray on the port.
- entwine β Wind or twist together ; interweave.
- garrote β a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- make ready β the state or condition of being ready.
- gimped β a limp.
- beset β If someone or something is beset by problems or fears, they have many problems or fears which affect them severely.
- housebreak β to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- live up to β to have life, as an organism; be alive; be capable of vital functions: all things that live.
- dragoons β Plural form of dragoon.
- bandying β to pass from one to another or back and forth; give and take; trade; exchange: to bandy blows; to bandy words.
- exscind β (medicine, surgery) To cut out.
- blow away β If you say that you are blown away by something, or if it blows you away, you mean that you are very impressed by it.
- debrief β When someone such as a soldier, diplomat, or astronaut is debriefed, they are asked to give a report on an operation or task that they have just completed.
- feinted β a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack: military feints; the feints of a skilled fencer.
- apprenticed β a person who works for another in order to learn a trade: an apprentice to a plumber.
- come to β When someone who is unconscious comes to, they recover consciousness.
- grieve β to feel grief or great sorrow: She has grieved over his death for nearly three years.
- locked in β a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
- net β net income, profit, or the like.
- intimidate β to make timid; fill with fear.
- clog β When something clogs a hole or place, it blocks it so that nothing can pass through.
- compress β When you compress something or when it compresses, it is pressed or squeezed so that it takes up less space.
- lade β to put (something) on or in, as a burden, load, or cargo; load.
- abridge β to reduce the length of (a written work) by condensing or rewriting
- despotize β To behave like a despot.
- angeling β one of a class of spiritual beings; a celestial attendant of God. In medieval angelology, angels constituted the lowest of the nine celestial orders (seraphim, cherubim, thrones, dominations or dominions, virtues, powers, principalities or princedoms, archangels, and angels).
- call down β to request or invoke
- concuss β to injure (the brain) by a violent blow, fall, etc
- consume β If you consume something, you eat or drink it.
- worsted β that which is worst.
- garroted β a method of capital punishment of Spanish origin in which an iron collar is tightened around a condemned person's neck until death occurs by strangulation or by injury to the spinal column at the base of the brain.
- agglomerated β gathered together into a cluster or mass.
- bust β a raid, search, or arrest by the police
- kenning β knowledge, understanding, or cognizance; mental perception: an idea beyond one's ken.
- nip β to squeeze or compress tightly between two surfaces or points; pinch; bite.
- detain β When people such as the police detain someone, they keep them in a place under their control.
- demilitarize β To demilitarize an area means to ensure that all military forces are removed from it.
- drape β to cover or hang with cloth or other fabric, especially in graceful folds; adorn with drapery.
- jazzed β music originating in New Orleans around the beginning of the 20th century and subsequently developing through various increasingly complex styles, generally marked by intricate, propulsive rhythms, polyphonic ensemble playing, improvisatory, virtuosic solos, melodic freedom, and a harmonic idiom ranging from simple diatonicism through chromaticism to atonality.
- qualify β to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- whacked β exhausted; tired out.
- housebreaking β to train (a pet) to excrete outdoors or in a specific place.
- innervates β to communicate nervous energy to; stimulate through nerves.
- jousting β a combat in which two knights on horseback attempted to unhorse each other with blunted lances.
noun release
- don't β contraction of do not.
- gainings β profits or earnings
- mitt β Baseball. a rounded glove with one internal section for the four fingers and another for the thumb and having the side next to the palm of the hand protected by a thick padding, used by catchers. a somewhat similar glove but with less padding and having sections for the thumb and one or two fingers, used by first basemen. Compare baseball glove.
- detainment β to keep from proceeding; keep waiting; delay.