Release and Took

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

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Took is an antonym for release.

Nearby Words: released, releasing

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Release is an antonym for took in topics: get, understand, steal.

It took him seven years from the release of the single "Clubbed To Death" in 1995 to complete and release the accompanying full-length album Furious Angels.

Source: One-Book Author
Earn Your Happy Ending: It took an Updated Re-release, but in contrast to the original release, Delta's True Endings are both, barring the token warning about Hope Is Scary, unambiguously happy.

Source: Video Game / Soul Sacrifice
Then, in 2003, they took another, musically Lighter and Softer, route with the release of In Reverie.

Source: Music / Saves The Day

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