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LET IT GO
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I. (verb)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Not act
Example:
He thought of a reply but let it go
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "let it go" is one way to...):
forbear; refrain (resist doing something)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Context examples:
We have submitted the poem to Mr. Cartwright Bruce, the editor went on to say, and he has reported so favorably upon it that we cannot let it go.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
When the fisherman went home to his wife in the pigsty, he told her how he had caught a great fish, and how it had told him it was an enchanted prince, and how, on hearing it speak, he had let it go again.
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
He took her hand;—whether she had not herself made the first motion, she could not say—she might, perhaps, have rather offered it—but he took her hand, pressed it, and certainly was on the point of carrying it to his lips—when, from some fancy or other, he suddenly let it go.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
