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set loose

VERB

release

Synonyms

STRONGEST

clear deliver discharge drop free issue leak surrender

STRONG

absolve acquit commute disengage dispense emancipate exculpate excuse exempt exonerate extricate liberate loose loosen manumit spring unbind unchain undo unfasten unleash unloose untie vent yield

WEAK

bail out cast loose give off give out go easy on let off let off steam let up on open up set at large set free take out turn loose turn out unfetter unshackle wipe the slate clean

Antonyms

STRONGEST

confine detain hold imprison keep limit restrain retain suppress

STRONG

bind blame charge condemn convict fasten incarcerate incriminate prevent sentence

WEAK

collect gather maintain

Example Sentences

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“There’s this bottled-up energy,” he said, and once people are set loose, expenses go up because there’s a community to connect with.

From MarketWatch • Feb. 9, 2026

We gave our children the addictive devices—we were addicted to them ourselves—and felt powerless to control the forces we had set loose in our own families.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 9, 2025

He decides to set loose his newest products, the Lost Boys, to retrieve the aliens he claims as his by the rule of “finders, keepers.”

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2025

Catch one of the most elusive wild cat species set loose in a landscape twice the size of the Lake District National Park.

From BBC • Jan. 10, 2025

He could see no signs of what had been set loose upon the earth: the highways, the towns, even the fences were gone.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

set loose

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