to free fully that is (literally) relieve release: dismiss (reflexively depart) or (figuratively) let die pardon or (specifically) divorce

1. to set free

2. to let go, dismiss, (to detain no longer)

a. a petitioner to whom liberty to depart is given by a decisive answer

b. to bid depart, send away

3. to let go free, release

a. a captive i.e. to loose his bonds and bid him depart, to give him liberty to depart

b. to acquit one accused of a crime and set him at liberty

c. indulgently to grant a prisoner leave to depart

d. to release a debtor, i.e. not to press one's claim against him, to remit his debt

4. used of divorce, to dismiss from the house, to repudiate. The wife of a Greek or Roman may divorce her husband.

5. to send one's self away, to depart