melepaskan
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== Indonesian ==
=== Alternative forms ===
ngelepasin (colloquial)
=== Etymology ===
From lepas + meng- -kan.
=== Pronunciation ===
(Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /mələˈpaskan/ [mə.ləˈpas.kan]
Rhymes: -askan
Syllabification: me‧le‧pas‧kan
=== Verb ===
melepaskan (transitive)
to no longer hold; to release; let go
to release from one's grasp
to discharge (e.g. from prison)
to waive, forgive (a debt)
to fire, to sack
to drop (a plan, an issue etc.); to lo longer be concerned with
to relinquish, to renounce, to no longer claim
to take off (clothes)
Synonym: melepas
to send up, to launch (e.g. a balloon)
to level, to aim, to direct (criticism, accusation, etc.)
synonym of melepasi
=== Further reading ===
“melepaskan”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016
Alan M. Stevens; A. Ed. Schmidgall-Tellings (2010), A Comprehensive Indonesian-English Dictionary[1], second edition, Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, →ISBN, page 578