unleashed; unleashing; unleashes
1
: to free from or as if from a leash : let loose
unleash the dogs
unleashing his anger
2
: to throw, shoot, or set in motion forcefully
unleashed a superb shot … to earn his side a point—
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The storm unleashed its fury.
The editorial unleashed a torrent of angry responses.
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Joey Garrison, USA Today, 9 Apr. 2025
With 12 shutouts in 14 games and champions of the Boras Classic South, Corona gets to unleash its pitching depth once again.
—Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2025
The film follows a haunted film editor and his estranged daughter who accidentally unleash a mythic creature while restoring an unfinished silent horror film.
—Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 7 Apr. 2025
As the temperature rises underground, this highly contagious and rapidly mutating microorganism multiplies and unleashes its brain-controlling, body-bursting terrors on the facility’s inhabitants – human and otherwise.
—Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 7 Apr. 2025
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unleash
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un·leash
ˌən-ˈlēsh 
: to free from or as if from a leash
unleash a dog
the storm unleashed its fury
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