let go

English

Verb

let go (third-person singular simple present lets go, present participle letting go, simple past and past participle let go)

1. Used other than as an idiom: see let,‎ go.

   Please, Mom, can you let me go to her party?

2. (intransitive, with of and transitive, with object before go) To release from one's grasp; to go from a state of holding on to a state of no longer holding on.

   You're hurting him! Let him go!

   Let go of the phone.

3. To emotionally disengage or to distract oneself from a situation.
4. (euphemistic) To dismiss from employment.

   The secretary didn't work out, so her boss told her she was being let go.

5. (euphemistic, transitive) To fail to maintain a standard of appearance, behavior, or performance.
   1. (euphemistic, usually reflexively) To gain weight

      Wow, dude! You've really let yourself go this time!

Synonyms

• (release from one's grasp): release, unhand

Translations

no longer hold on

• Danish: slippe, give slip på
• Finnish: päästää irti, päästää käsistään, hellittää otteensa
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: loslassen (de)
• Greek: αφήνω (el) (afíno)
• Irish: scaoil (ga), scaoil de (ga)

• Japanese: 放す (ja) (hanasu)
• Latin: mitto (la)
• Russian: отпускать (ru) (otpuskát') impf., отпустить (ru) (otpustít') pf.
• Spanish: soltar (es)

dismiss from employment

• Danish: lade gå
• Finnish: irtisanoa (fi)

• Latin: demitto (la), dimitto (la)
• Portuguese: demitir (pt)

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Translations to be checked

• German: sich trennen von
• Latin: amittere
• Norwegian: Slippe
• Spanishsoltar

Synonyms

• (no longer hold on): leggo (imperative)