Need help in releasing an email id which is wrongly associated with an account of my own

Need help in releasing an email id which is wrongly associated with an account of my own

I created an email id today and associated it with a user. Now I am doing some reorganization and need to associate the email id with a new user.  I am unable to create the email id again even though I have deleted the previous user it was associated with.
 
Can somebody help?