"set loose" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sets loose",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "setting loose",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set loose",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set loose",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "set<,,set> loose"
      },
      "expansion": "set loose (third-person singular simple present sets loose, present participle setting loose, simple past and past participle set loose)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine",
          "text": "The new product was the Game Boy — a hand-held, battery-powered plastic slab that promised to set gamers loose, after all those decades of sweaty bondage, from the tyranny of rec rooms and pizza parlors and arcades.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58",
          "text": "He laid the foundation stone on August 1 1847, and then set around 2,000 workmen loose on the undertaking. The station opened exactly one year later on August 1 1848.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set free, let go, release, liberate, unleash."
      ],
      "id": "en-set_loose-en-verb-1wVPz10z",
      "links": [
        [
          "set free",
          "set free"
        ],
        [
          "let go",
          "let go"
        ],
        [
          "release",
          "release"
        ],
        [
          "liberate",
          "liberate"
        ],
        [
          "unleash",
          "unleash"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To set free, let go, release, liberate, unleash."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "let loose"
        },
        {
          "word": "turn loose"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "set loose"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sets loose",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "setting loose",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set loose",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "set loose",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "set<,,set> loose"
      },
      "expansion": "set loose (third-person singular simple present sets loose, present participle setting loose, simple past and past participle set loose)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2012 April 4, Sam Anderson, “Just One More Game ...”, in The New York Times Magazine",
          "text": "The new product was the Game Boy — a hand-held, battery-powered plastic slab that promised to set gamers loose, after all those decades of sweaty bondage, from the tyranny of rec rooms and pizza parlors and arcades.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021 December 29, Stephen Roberts, “Stories and facts behind railway plaques: Chester (1848)”, in RAIL, number 947, page 58",
          "text": "He laid the foundation stone on August 1 1847, and then set around 2,000 workmen loose on the undertaking. The station opened exactly one year later on August 1 1848.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To set free, let go, release, liberate, unleash."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "set free",
          "set free"
        ],
        [
          "let go",
          "let go"
        ],
        [
          "release",
          "release"
        ],
        [
          "liberate",
          "liberate"
        ],
        [
          "unleash",
          "unleash"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To set free, let go, release, liberate, unleash."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "let loose"
    },
    {
      "word": "turn loose"
    }
  ],
  "word": "set loose"
}