v. [UN-2 4 b.] trans. To free from a leash; to set free in order to pursue or attack. Chiefly fig.
1671. Phillips (ed. 3), To unleash,… to let go the dogs after the Game.
1821. Shelley, Hellas, 357. Like beasts When earthquake is unleashed.
1854. J. S. C. Abbott, Napoleon (1855), I. xxvi. 418. The bloodhounds of war were unleashed and England had unleashed them.
1868. Geo. Eliot, Sp. Gipsy, 48. With power to check all rage until it turned to ordered force, unleashed on chosen prey.
