Let Go

Definition: Let Go

Let Go

Verb

1. Release, as from one's hands; "Let go of the door handle, please!".

2. Be relaxed; "Don't be so worried all the time--just let go!".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonyms: Let Go

Liberation

Verb: liberate, free; set free, set clear, set at liberty; render free, emancipate, release; enfranchise, affranchise; manumit; enlarge; disband, discharge, disenthrall, disenthral, dismiss; let go, let loose, loose, let out, let slip; cast adrift, turn adrift; deliver; absolve; (acquit).

Relinquishment

Verb: relinquish, give up, surrender, yield, cede; let go, let slip; spare, drop, resign, forego, renounce, abandon, expropriate, give away, dispose of, part with; lay aside, lay apart, lay down, lay on the shelf; (disuse); set aside, put aside, put away; make away with, cast behind; maroon.

Restitution

Verb: return, restore; give back, carry back, bring back; render, render up; give up; let go, unclutch; disgorge, regorge; regurgitate; recoup, reimburse, compensate, indemnify; remit, rehabilitate; repair; (make good).

Crosswords: Let Go

Two of them were killers that never made it past the age of 35. The other is a non-practicing attorney, living within the pain of his past, too afraid to let go, finding reassurance instead of confronting its horror (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)

Like monkeys, they are -- won't let go of one branch until they've got hold of the next (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore)

Never let go, Rose (Titanic; writing credit: James Cameron)

I let go. Lost in oblivion (Fight Club; writing credit: Jim Uhls)

It's hard to let go isn't it (Meet Joe Black; writing credit: Martin Brest, screenplay adaptation by Walter Ferris. Based on the play 'Death Takes a Holiday' by Alberto Casella.)

Hold me tight and don't let go (Don't Let Go (Love) Chorus; performing artist: En Vogue)

You're just a part of me I can't let go (Hard to Say I'm Sorry; performing artist: Az Yet)

But girl it's time to let go (I'll Never Break Your Heart; performing artist: Backstreet Boys)

I cant let go (Ghost Of You And Me; performing artist: BBMak)

That I'd have to let go and watch you fly (Standing At The Edge Of The Earth; performing artist: Blessid Union Of Souls)

Never Let Go (1960)

A Farmer Who Could Not Let Go (1900)

Don't Let Go (performing artist: Isaac Hayes)

Can't Let Go (performing artist: Mariah Carey)

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Books

• The God Who Won't Let Go (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Let Go (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Crewmen slip anchor stoppers in preparation for anchoring. On the order "let go", the anchor detail will knock out the single remaining stopper with a sledge hammer, starting the anchor on its way. Pittsburgh is at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton, Washington, during her initial post-reactivation trials, circa September 1951. She was recommissioned on 25 September. Credit: NAVY.

Please! somebody help us to let go of this load. Credit: Library of Congress.

He won't let go. A cleverer crow than the bird of Aesop's fable. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I confess, we find among the Jews, as well as other nations, that men did sell themselves; but, it is plain, this was only to drudgery, not to slavery: for, it is evident, the person sold was not under an absolute, arbitrary, despotical power: for the master could not have power to kill him, at any time, whom, at a certain time, he was obliged to let go free out of his service; and the master of such a servant was so far from having an arbitrary power over his life, that he could not, at pleasure, so much as maim him, but the loss of an eye, or tooth, set him free, Exod. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

And, if I let go, it falls to the floor

However, the hand relaxed and let go its hold

Having once got hold they never let go, but struggled and wrestled and rolled on the chips incessantly

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Health

If the problem is urinary retention (the bladder does not know when to let go), it may be necessary to use a catheter to empty the bladder at regular times. (references)

For other people, a neurogenic bladder means that their muscles do not get the message that it is time to let go. If the bladder becomes too full, urine may back up into the kidneys, and the extra pressure causes damage to the tiny blood vessels in the kidney. (references)

Political Economy

Sierra Leone

While more than 2,600 abducted children were released by the RUF, most of those let go were male. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Expressions using "let go": let go (moorings) ♦ let go anchor ♦ let go behind ♦ let go of ♦ let go one's hold of ♦ not to let go ♦ To let go ♦ To let go by the run. Additional references.

Albanian

liroj (acquit, cast off, cheapen, detach, discharge, disengage, dismiss, ease, excuse, free, free oneself, let loose, liberate, loose, loosen, pay, pay out, relax, release, slack, slacken, unbind, unstring, vacate), lëshoj (cede, concede, dart, depasture, discharge, ease, effuse, emit, exhale, fetch, fire, flop, get off, give, give off, give out, give rise to, heave, heave a sigh, issue, let, let fall, let loose, let off, pay, project, radiate, relieve, send, set on, shed, shoot, sluice, throw down, touch off, trip, unbrace, unbridle, uncork, uncouple, unleash, unmuzzle, unrein, untuck, utter), braktis (cast away, cast off, chuck, desert, drop out, fall away, forsake, jilt, lay down, relinquish, renounce, tek pupa, throw over). (various references)

Arabic 

‏ودع (check, commend, commit, consign, entrust, keep, keeping, let, lodge, part from, pay, see off, send off, store), ‏ترك (break, cast aside, discontinue, ditch, drop, drop it, drop out, lay aside, leave, leave about, neglect, peg, quit, rap, resign, resignation, sign away, strand, suffer, unhand), ‏صرف من الذهن, ‏أطلق سراح (discharge, render up, set loose, spring). (various references)

Bulgarian 

пускам (admit, bleed, cast off, course, discharge, dismiss, drive, drop, float, fly, give off, grow, issue, let, let fall, let loose, mail, play, push out, put forth, put on, put out, release, rip out, run, send forth, slip, start, start up, throw in, turn out, uncork, unhand, unleash). (various references)

Chinese 

�"�手 (have a free hand, let go one's hold), �'' (to scatter). (various references)

Czech

pustit (let fall, switch on). (various references)

Danish

lade ankeret gå (drop anchor, let go anchor), kaste anker (anchor, to anchor, to cast anchor, to drop anchor, to let go anchor). (various references)

Dutch

voor anker gaan (anchor, drop anchor, let go anchor), het anker laten vallen (drop anchor, let go anchor, to anchor, to cast anchor, to drop anchor, to let go anchor), afgeven (deposit, spread). (various references)

Finnish

laskea (account, calculate, compute, count, decrease, discharge, drop, empty, estimate, fall, figure, go down, include, lay, let, let down, lower, reckon, set, work out), päästää käsistään (let slip), päästää irti (let loose, let off the lead, loosen, release one's hold, unchain, unfasten, unleash, unloose), päästää (discharge, disengage, let loose, release, temper, unfasten), hellittää (ease, loosen, relax, slacken, yield). (various references)

French

libérer, laisser tomber (let fall), laisser (leave, let, to leave), abandonner (leave, leave off, leave out, let down). (various references)

German

loslassen (come out with, launch, let loose, let off, loose off, release, relinquish, send off, spout, to let go, to relinquish, unclasp, unhand, unleash, unloose), lassen (allow, get, leave, leave alone, leave in, let, let be, lets, make, permit, release, stop, to assume, to let), gehengelassen, auslassen (drop, ignore, leave alone, leave off, leave out, let down, let off steam, let out, melt, Miss, miss out, omit, omitting, release, skip, to leave out, vent, wreak). (various references)

Greek 

μολάρω (loosen, slacken), αμολάω (let fall, loosen, throw out). (various references)

Hebrew 

לעזוב (abandon, desert, forsake, leave, loosen, release, set free), ל�"פטיר (dismiss, release, sack, say, send away). (various references)

Hungarian

elenged (let off, set loose, to disband, to dismiss, to excuse, to let go one's hold, to let loose, to let off, to let out, to let slip, to mull, to relax one's hold, to release, to remit, to slip, to uncoop, unleash). (various references)

Italian

lasciar andare (let off), mollare (ease, give, give in, pack in, release, slacken, stop). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

見過す (to let go by, to let pass, to miss, to overlook), 見過�"す (to let go by, to let pass, to miss, to overlook), �"っ飛ばす (to beat, to drive at full speed, to knock, to let go off, to not partake, to strike), �"�る (to let go), 取り離す (to let go, to release), 往なす (to chase away, to let go), 下す (to let go down, to lower). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

く� す (to let go down, to lower), ぶっとばす (to beat, to drive at full speed, to knock, to let go off, to not partake, to strike), ほうる (to let go), いなす (to chase away, to let go), みす�"す (to let go by, to let pass, to miss, to overlook), とりはなす (to let go, to release). (various references)

Manx

lhiggey'n raad. (various references)

Pig Latin

etlay ogay.(various references)

Portuguese

livrar (disburden, discharge, dispossess, divest, free, rescue, rid, save, set free, to free), libertar (affranchise, deliver, discharge, disembarrass, disengage, disentangle, disenthral, ease, emancipate, enfranchise, free, liberate, loose, manumit, redeem, release, relieve, rid, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unshackle), soltar (cob, discharge from, drop, extricate, free, give off, give over, heave, let loose, liberate, loose, loosen, open, release, relinquish, set free, set up, slacken, throw, unbend, unbind, unbrace, uncage, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unfetter, unfix, unhand, unleash, unlink, unshackle, unstrap, untwine, utter), desentupir (discharge, free, unstop), desembaraçar (discharge, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, free, rid, tousle, untangle), deixar (allow, depart, drop off, forsake, get away, go, go away, go out, have, leave, leave behind, leave out, let, move out, quit, release, see, step out, take one's leave, throw over, to avoid, to leave, unhand). (various references)

Romanian

slãbi din strânsoare, da drumul (discharge, dismiss, let out, loose hold). (various references)

Russian 

уступить (succumb), выпускать (discharge, ease, emit, issue, let out, put out, release, relinquish, send forth, vent), отпускать (dismiss, let go off, loosen, release, temper), податься. (various references)

Scottish

leig (accord, admit, afford, allow, let, let Irish léigim, let out, permit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pustiti (admit, allow, let, let in, let loose, let out, permit, release, run), ne dirati (hands off, let alone). (various references)

Spanish

largar (bung, launch, release, send packing, unfurl, unhand). (various references)

Swedish

släppa (come loose, discharge, drop, drop down, ease, give up, let, let fall, let loose, let slip, release, relinquish). (various references)

Thai

ปล่อย (จากการเกาะกุม, การยึ�", การจับฯลฯ) (let go of), ปล่อย (let go of). (various references)

Turkish

serbest bırakmak (affranchise, deblock, decontrol, deliver, discharge, disentangle, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, free, give a horse the reins, give smb. his head, let go one's hold of, let loose, let off, liberate, loose, manumit, release, relinquish, set at large, set at liberty, set free, slip, unbind, unchain, unfreeze, unhitch, unloose, unrein, unshackle), salıvermek (affranchise, disengage, dismiss, extricate, free, leave off, let go one's hold of, let loose, let out, loose, release, release one's hold, set free, set loose, slip, unhand), rahatlamak (ease, feel relieved, let one's hair down, let oneself go, open out, relax, unbend), koyvermek (allow, release, slack, slack up, slacken, unloose), kendini koyvermek (drift, let oneself go), işine son vermek (cashier), gevşetmek (ease, enervate, limber up, loosen, loosen up, relax, release, slack, slack off, slack up, slacken, start, unbend, unbrace, unfasten, ungird, unloose, unstring), gevşemek (come loose, come unstuck, cool down, ease off, fade, flag, get loose, go limp, languish, let up, let upon, loosen, relax, slack, slack off, slacken, soften, unbend, unbrace oneself, unwind, work loose), boşlamak (ignore, neglect, slacken), bırakmak (abandon, allow, break oneself of a habit, chuck, consign, demise, discontinue, dismiss, dispose of, drop, drop in, drop out, edge out, expose, fail, forego, forgo, forsake, give over, give up, go without, grow, hand down, jack in, jilt, kick, lay down, lay off, leave, leave off, let, let smb. have it, offload, outgrow, plant, put, put away, put off, put to, quit, release, release one's hold, relinquish, renounce, resign, revolt from, stop, surrender, take one's farewell of, throw over, unclasp, unlearn, unloose, walk out). (various references)

Turkmen 

sypdyrmak (let escape, miss), goяbermek. (various references)

Welsh

gollwng (absolve, broach, discharge, dismiss, drop, leak, loose). (various references)

admisisse, admisit, admissura, admitte, admittere, amiserat, amisi, amisso, amittere, amittes, amittit, emiserit, emiserunt, emisi, emisisset, emisisti, emisit, emissa, emissae, emissarum, emissiones, emissus, emittam, emittamque, emittat, emitte, emittendum, emittens, emittere, emitteris, emittes, emittet, emittis, emittit, inmisero, inmisisti, inmisit, inmisitque, inmissa, inmissam, inmissus, inmittam, inmittamque, inmittas, inmitte, inmittendos, inmittentes, inmittere, inmittet, inmittetur, inmittit, mittere, omiserunt, omisi, omisso, omittat, omittens, omittere, remittere. (various references)

relaisser. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: gelt, loge, ogle, tole.

-2 letters: ego, gel, get, got, leg, let, log, lot, ole, teg, tel, toe, tog.

-3 letters: el, et, go, lo, oe, to.

+1 letter: gelato, goblet, goglet, legato, toggle.

+2 letters: bootleg, flotage, gelatos, gloated, gloater, globate, glouted, gluepot, goblets, goglets, goldest, legator, legatos, lentigo, loggets, logiest, longest, tangelo, theolog, toggled, toggler, toggles, tollage, voltage.

+3 letters: bootlegs, cetology, cogently, eclogite, elongate, ethology, etiology, eulogist, fetology, floatage, flotages, gantlope, gatefold, gelation, gloaters, globated, gluepots, goatlike, godliest, helotage, jelutong, latigoes, legation, legators, lodgment, loggiest, logotype, longtime, megavolt, obligate, octangle, otalgies, outglare, overgilt, pilotage, plottage, regolith, tangelos, telegony, theologs, theology, togglers, tollages, tollgate, toweling, travelog, voltages, waterlog.