After their treatment, the zookeepers decided to ____ the healthy animals back into the wild.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The record label planned to ____ the album on the first Friday of the following month.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-der.
Old French re-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-
Proto-Indo-European *(s)leg-s-ós
Latin laxus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin laxō
Vulgar Latin *laxicāre
Vulgar Latin *lassicāre
Old French laschier
Old French relaschier
Old French relaisserbor.
Middle English relesen
English release
From Middle English relesen, relessen, from Old French relaisser (variant of relascher).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads."
— 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:
"His hot release pouring into her, filling her and adding to the wettness within her"
— 1997 January 31, MKara50188, “Repost! Abduction (J/K, mild bondage, M/F sex)”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica (Usenet):
"punishments inflicted and released"
— [1594], Richard Hooker, edited by J[ohn] S[penser], Of the Lawes of Ecclesiastical Politie, […], London: […] Iohn Windet, […], →OCLC, (please specify the page):
"With the Gunners far too lightweight in midfield, Mikel Arteta dropped back into a deeper-lying role. This freed Yossi Benayoun to go further forward, a move that helped forge a rare Arsenal chance on 30 minutes when the Israeli released Van Persie, only for the Dutchman's snap-shot to be tipped around the post."
— 2011 September 13, Sam Lyon, “Borussia Dortmund 1-1 Arsenal”, in BBC: