To release from restraint or inhibition.
To release from chemical bonds or solutions.
To acquire from an enemy during wartime, used especially of cities, regions, and other population centers.
To release from servitude or unjust rule.
To release from slavery: to manumit.
To acquire from another by theft or force: to steal, to rob.
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.