0 past simple and past participle of unleash
1 to suddenly release a violent force that cannot be controlled:
Such questions were lost as enormous political energy was unleashed in a drive to control the content of education and raise standards.
Cognisant of the democratic support of civil society and students in the previous coup attempt, the military unleashed an exceptionally violent coup.
Ultimately the pro-division faction contrived to get the government to support its position and when the ' rebel' party revolted, the federal army unleashed counter-revolutionary terror.
The colonial predicament unleashed changes that led to a rethinking of identities within the indigenous social hierarchy.
While it did not lead to effective pacification of the region, new political dynamics were unleashed.
Abolitionists, he concludes, belonged to an ' anxious generation ' that was increasingly alarmed by the social tendencies being unleashed by rapid economic change (p. 142).
A religious war in this context unleashed a vast proliferation of individual religious interpretations.
In incorporating popular participation into the formal development channels, forces had been unleashed that it was no longer possible to control.
