unleash

1. (transitive) To free from a leash, or as from a leash.Examples: "He unleashed his dog in the park."; "Somewhat unsurprisingly, unleashing the most powerful navy on the planet with carte blanche to exterminate slavers on sight saw a dramatic and sudden collapse in slaver numbers in the late 1840s and early 1850s."Antonyms: leash, leash uptransitive

2. (figurative) To let go; to release.Examples: "He unleashed his fury."; "It is the goneness of the Holocaust that produces the simultaneous profusion of discourses and understandings; the goneness is what opens up, what spurs, what unleashes the perpetual desire to do, to make, to rethink the Holocaust."; "As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net."figuratively

3. (figurative) To precipitate; to bring about.Examples: "Even if it were working perfectly, the stimulus would not come close to stemming the cascade of joblessness unleashed by this megarecession."; "People who talk about an imminent possibility of war seldom pose this question: What would North Korea’s leadership get from unleashing a war that they are likely to lose in weeks, if not days?"figuratively