liberate
Meanings
Plural: liberates
Verb
- give equal rights to; of women and minorities
- grant freedom to; free from confinement
- grant freedom to
- "The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university"
- release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
- To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
- To release from slavery: to manumit.
- To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
- To release from servitude or unjust rule.
- To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
- To release from restraint or inhibition.
- To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
- To release from chemical bonds or solutions.
- To acquire from an enemy during wartime, used especially of cities, regions, and other population centers.
- To acquire from another by theft or force: to steal, to rob.
Adj
- liberated
- allowed, delivered, freed (see Etymology 3).
Noun
- A writ issued out of the Chancery for the payment of a pension, debt, the delivery of one's land or goods from a sheriff's custody, the delivery a prisoner put in bail fo appearance or other royal allowance.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin līberātus, the perfect passive participle of līberō (“to set free, deliver”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from līber (“free”); see liberal.
Synonyms
befree, deliver, disentangle, emancipate, extricate, free, let go, let loose, liberate, loose, release, set free, turn loose, unleash, unloose, unloosen
Scrabble Score: 10
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