Release and Setting off

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Release verb - To set free (from a state of being held in check).

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Setting off is an antonym for release.

Nearby Words: released, releasing

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Release is an antonym for setting off in bound on topic.

In Allegiance, the heroes find a wall with embedded canisters of acidic, corrosive cryseefa gas, and have to go through the wall without touching the canisters or setting off the alarms that would make the canisters release.

Source: Deadly Gas

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Setting off and Release. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/release/setting_off

Release & Setting off. N.p., 2016. Web. 14 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/release/setting_off>.

Setting off or Release. 2016. Accessed August 14, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/release/setting_off.

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