To free from restraint; to set at liberty.
To make loose.
To become unfastened or undone.
To relieve (the bowels) from constipation; to promote defecation.
To become loose.
To disengage (a device that restrains).
To free or liberate from confinement or other physical restraint.
To recover forcibly.
To achieve something positive under difficult conditions.
To save from any violence, danger or evil.
To deliver by arms, notably from a siege.
To remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil and sin.
A rescuee.
A liberation, freeing.
An act or episode of rescuing, saving.
The forcible ending of a siege; liberation from similar military peril
A special airliner flight to bring home passengers who are stranded