Emily Dickinson Lexicon

let (-s, -'s, -ing), v. [OE.]

1. Permit; allow.
2. Release; liberate; set free; [fig.] awaken.
3. Phrase. “Let go / let (someone) go”: release; liberate; set free; refrain from holding onto.
4. Phrase. “Let go”: emit; expire; exhale; expel; [periphrasis: “let go the breath”] sigh.
5. Phrase. “Let go”: dismiss; disregard; forget; ignore; put aside; leave behind; pay no heed to; [fig.] foreswear; sacrifice for something better.
6. Phrase. “Let go”: omit; overlook; leave undone; fail to perform; allow to pass by.
7. Phrase. “Let go”: quit; surrender; give up; relinquish possession of.
8. Phrase. “Let go”: produce; deliver; publish; put forth.
9. Phrase. “Let away”: discharge; vent; send out electricity.
10. Phrase. “Let down”: lower.
11. Phrase. “Let us / Let's”: come; we shall.
12. Phrase. “Let go”: collapse; open up; break open; fall apart.
13. Phrase. “Letting go”: (see letting, verbal n.)