To free from encumbrance, or from anything which clogs, impedes, or obstructs; to disburden.
1. To relieve, in a moral sense, as of a charge, obligation, or load of blame resting on one; to clear of something that lies upon oppresses one, as an accusation or imputation.
2. To discharge from duty or obligation.
ETYM Pref. re + lease to let.
To part with; SYN. relinquish, free, give up.