To send a ship, boat or raft out to sea without a crew or resources to steer it.
To free from fastening or from restraint; to let loose; to unbind.
In the Perl programming language, to undo the process of tying, so that a variable uses default instead of custom functionality.
To resolve; to unfold; to clear.
To become untied or loosed.
To loosen, as something interlaced or knotted; to disengage the parts of.