set loose

Verb

Meaning

set loose (third-person singular simple present sets loose, present participle setting loose, simple past and past participle set loose)

(transitive) To set free, let go, release, liberate, unleash.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

launch drop liberated liberate unleash emancipate unchain at large set free let go let loose unshackle liberating unfetter disenthrall
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Antonyms

confined held trapped run-in gripped lay hands on
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Examples

One scarcely knows if he would be of more use to us as a hostage, or set loose to be a very bad enemy leader. Lois McMaster Bujold

Above all, I would not expect a wise race, at great expense, to set loose an army of self-replicating robots. Bernard M. Oliver

Close letter words and terms

set light to set list set little store by set loose from set meal set menu