(transitive) To set free, release or discharge (from obligations, debts, responsibility etc.). / (transitive, obsolete) To resolve; to explain; to solve.

Capable of being vacuum-cleaned.

An urban area of the borough of Lewisham, London, England, adjacent to New Cross (OS grid ref TQ3677).

(boxing) With the head of an antagonist under one's arm, so that one can pommel it with the other fist at will. / (figuratively) In an awkward situation; wholly under the power of someone else.