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Meaning of set loose | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B2

Definitions

To set free, let go, release, liberate, unleash.

transitive

Equivalents

العربية طلق
日本語 解き放す

Examples

“The new product was the Game Boy — a hand-held, battery-powered plastic slab that promised to set gamers loose, after all those decades of sweaty bondage, from the tyranny of rec rooms and pizza parlors and arcades.”
“He laid the foundation stone on August 1 1847, and then set around 2,000 workmen loose on the undertaking. The station opened exactly one year later on August 1 1848.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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