unleash
/ʌnˈliːʃ
/verb [with object]
1Release (a dog) from a leash: they dig up badger setts and unleash terriers into them...
- Five Dock police arrived shortly after and cordoned off the area before unleashing a sniffer dog.
- But who's to say that they might have been even better if they'd been unleashed on the free market.
- By then he and the BBC were refusing to capitulate as Mr Campbell unleashed a ferocious assault.
Synonyms
let loose, release, free, set free, loose, unloose, unbridle, untie, untether, unchain, unbind, unshackle, unmanacle;
discharge, let go of, let fly
1.1Cause (a strong or violent force) to be released or become unrestrained: the failure of the talks could unleash more fighting his comment unleashed a storm of protest in India...
- Yet the Iraq war unleashed forces in British politics, too.
- On the eve of the wars unleashed by Edward I's invasion in 1276, Wales had essentially become divided into three zones.
- The US state unleashed a decade of witch-hunting against the left, which hit even moderate black lobbying organisations.
- do someone a good (or bad) turn
- do someone an injustice
- do someone a solid
- do someone credit (or do credit to someone)
- do someone dirt (also do dirt to)
- do someone fine
- do someone good
- do someone in
- do someone no favours
- do someone (or oneself) a mischief
- do someone out of
- do someone over
- do someone proud
- do someone's head in
- do someone/thing a power of good
- do someone/thing down
- do someone/thing justice
- do someone to death
- do someone up
- do someone wrong
- do something for one's country (or England etc.)
- do something in
- do something (or nothing) for
- do something out
- do something over