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Release :: Release (n.) The act of letting loose or freeing, or the state of being let loose or freed; liberation or discharge from restraint of any kind, as from confinement or bondage..

Enlargement :: Enlargement (n.) A setting at large, or being set at large; release from confinement, servitude, or distress; liberty..

Bridewell :: Bridewell (n.) A house of correction for the confinement of disorderly persons; -- so called from a hospital built in 1553 near St. Bride's (or Bridget's) well, in London, which was subsequently a penal workhouse..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) Legal release from confinement; liberation; as, the discharge of a prisoner..

Prison :: Prison (n.) Specifically, a building for the safe custody or confinement of criminals and others committed by lawful authority..

Releasement :: Releasement (n.) The act of releasing, as from confinement or obligation..

Discharge :: Discharge (v. t.) To release legally from confinement; to set at liberty; as, to discharge a prisoner..

Poundage :: Poundage (n.) Confinement of cattle, or other animals, in a public pound..

Vent :: Vent (v. t.) To suffer to escape from confinement; to let out; to utter; to pour forth; as, to vent passion or complaint..

Internment :: Internment (n.) Confinement within narrow limits, -- as of foreign troops, to the interior of a country..

Retention :: Retention (n.) Place of custody or confinement.

Captive :: Captive (a.) Of or pertaining to bondage or confinement; serving to confine; as, captive chains; captive hours..

Coarctation :: Coarctation (n.) Confinement to a narrow space.

Lying-in :: Lying-in (n.) The state attending, and consequent to, childbirth; confinement..

Circumscription :: Circumscription (n.) The act of limiting, or the state of being limited, by conditions or restraints; bound; confinement; limit..

Unmew :: Unmew (v. t.) To release from confinement or restraint.

Ward :: Ward (n.) The state of being under guard or guardianship; confinement under guard; the condition of a child under a guardian; custody.

Bedlam :: Bedlam (n.) A place appropriated to the confinement and care of the insane; a madhouse.

Unpen :: Unpen (v. t.) To release from a pen or from confinement.

Captive :: Captive (a.) Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement..

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