unˈleash, v.
[un-2 4 b.]
trans. To free from a leash; to set free in order to pursue or attack. Chiefly fig.
| 1671 Phillips (ed. 3), To unleash,..to let go the dogs after the Game. 1821 Shelley Hellas 357 Like beasts When earthquake is unleashed. 1854 J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. xxvi. 418 The bloodhounds of war were unleashed and England had unleashed them. 1868 Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy 48 With power to check all rage until it turned To ordered force, unleashed on chosen prey. |