0 to suddenly release a violent force that cannot be controlled: --
1 to let happen or begin something powerful that, once begun, cannot be controlled: --
The vice president unleashed a furious attack on leading Democratic representatives in Congress.
Thus, whether democratic and market forces unleash or inhibit corruption remains an open question.
What remains puzzling about the civil war is the extreme level of violence unleashed by the rebels upon the civilian population.
In incorporating popular participation into the formal development channels, forces had been unleashed that it was no longer possible to control.
He was unleashing a tiger but hoping to ride it down paths of his own choosing.
A religious war in this context unleashed a vast proliferation of individual religious interpretations.
The collective enjoyment of food, drink, music and dance unleashes the flow of passion.
Alberdi wanted to unleash an explosion of uncontrollable indignation, he succeeded.
Abolitionists, he concludes, belonged to an ' anxious generation ' that was increasingly alarmed by the social tendencies being unleashed by rapid economic change (p. 142).
