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let out
verb as in blab
verb as in blurt
verb as in break
verb as in communicate
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in discharge
verb as in dismiss
verb as in dismiss
Strong matches
verb as in elongate
verb as in exhale
verb as in expose
Strong matches
verb as in extend
Strongest matches
Strong matches
verb as in free
Strong matches
verb as in give away
verb as in lengthen
verb as in let on
verb as in liberate
verb as in loan
verb as in loose/loosen
Weak matches
- alleviate
- become unfastened
- break up
- deliver
- detach
- discharge
- disconnect
- disengage
- disenthrall
- disjoin
- ease
- ease off
- emancipate
- extricate
- free
- let go
- liberate
- manumit
- mitigate
- relax
- release
- separate
- slacken
- unbar
- unbolt
- unbuckle
- unbutton
- unchain
- unclasp
- undo
- unfasten
- unfix
- unhitch
- unhook
- unlace
- unlash
- unlatch
- unleash
- unlock
- unloose
- unpin
- unscrew
- unsnap
- unstick
- unstrap
- untie
- untighten
- work free
- work loose
verb as in loosen
Strong matches
verb as in manumit
Strong matches
verb as in milk
verb as in pink slip
Weak matches
- ax
- boot
- boot out
- bounce
- bump
- can
- cashier
- defrock
- depone
- depose
- deselect
- discharge
- disemploy
- disfrock
- displace
- disqualify
- drop
- fire
- furlough
- give notice to
- give someone his or her walking papers
- give someone the ax
- give someone the gate
- give someone the pink slip
- give the ax
- give the gate
- give the heave-ho
- give walking papers
- give warning
- impeach
- kick out
- lay off
- let go
- oust
- pension
- put away
- recall
- release
- retire
- sack
- send packing
- shelve
- show someone the door
- shut out
- suspend
- terminate
- turn away
- unfrock
- unseat
- wash out
verb as in prolongate
verb as in reveal
Strongest matches
verb as in trust
Example Sentences
He does have the let-out proviso – “to the best of my ability” – which leaves plenty of room to accommodate his skew-shift views about what he thinks needs preserving, protecting and defending.
The UK government's consent to the referendum was needed and given, but Cameron sensed that a let-out soft option which allowed the Nats to come back for more would be a concession too far.
“If you’re a 2011 or a 2012 grad, the competition just got fierce — even more fierce — with the let-out of the 2013 class,” said Alexa Hamill, the United States campus recruiting leader for PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Admittedly Cameron did have a let-out: a letter from a Labour health minister saying there wasn't enough evidence in favour of plain packaging.
Other calls use the widely-abused "permission to call" let-out clause in the TPS rules.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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