LET GO OF

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does let go of mean? 

• LET GO OF (verb)
  The verb LET GO OF has 1 sense:

1. release, as from one's grip

  Familiarity information: LET GO OF used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LET GO OF (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Release, as from one's grip

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

let go; let go of; release; relinquish

Context example:

relinquish your grip on the rope--you won't fall

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "let go of"):

discharge; muster out (release from military service)

unclasp (release from a clasp)

pop (release suddenly)

toggle (release by a toggle switch)

unhand (remove the hand from)

bring out; let out (bring out of a specific state)

unleash (release or vent)

let loose; loose; unleash (turn loose or free from restraint)

unleash (release from a leash)

disengage; withdraw (release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody

Antonym:

hold (have or hold in one's hands or grip)

 Context examples 

Now that the terrible unknown had let go of him, he forgot that the unknown had any terrors.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

As I did so, I let go of the tiller, which sprang sharp to leeward, and I think this saved my life, for it struck Hands across the chest and stopped him, for the moment, dead.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The dog-musher let go of him precipitately, with action similar to that of a man who has picked up live fire.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

She wouldn't let go of the letter.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)