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liberate

[lib-uh-reyt]

verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.

to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.

to free (a nation or area) from control by a foreign or oppressive government.

to free (a group or individual) from social or economic constraints or discrimination, especially arising from traditional role expectations or bias.

to disengage; set free from combination, as a gas.

Slang. to steal or take over illegally: The soldiers liberated a consignment of cigarettes.

Origin:
1615–25; < Latin līberātus (past participle of līberāre to free), equivalent to līberā- verb stem + -tus past participle suffix. See liberal, -ate¹

Related forms

lib·er·a·tive, lib·er·a·to·ry

[lib-er-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] , adjective

lib·er·a·tor, noun

pre·lib·er·ate, verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.

re·lib·er·ate, verb (used with object), -at·ed, -at·ing.

un·lib·er·at·ed, adjective

Synonyms
1. deliver, unfetter, disenthrall, loose. See release.

Antonyms
1. imprison; enthrall.

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It can liberate a good teacher to become even better.

All the dunes need to start moving again is drought prolonged enough to liberate the sand from the fragile grip of vegetation.

One of your first missions is to liberate an army of headbangers from their toil in the underground mines.

The trick to using aluminium to liberate hydrogen is to prevent this layer from forming.

It's the right time to liberate our children from the heavy hands of history.

Not only did privatisation liberate the taxpayer from heavy losses, it often improved efficiency and service as well.

Foreign convicts' appeals against deportation will no longer be contested, in order to liberate their beds.

But that should not interfere with continuing efforts to liberate the private sector.

She was arguing that big companies should liberate their staff from stultifying hierarchies.

It was from this house where she led the resistance struggle that would ultimately liberate a nation.

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Occasionally, poets have come along to liberate type from the.

The international nonprofit group works to liberate children sold into slavery, sometimes by their own families.

Otherwise, all of the energy might liberate its heat at once, incinerating the life-form.

The painted web sticks and then with a scissors you snip the anchoring threads to liberate the now mounted web.

Gozzi wanted to liberate commedia dell'arte into a world of extravagant theater.

The iPod was praised for its ability to liberate digital music collections from the.

Occasionally, poets have come along to liberate type from the jailhouse of.

Not because it does not have a will or capacity to liberate our people economically but because its lacks leadership.

Fost said the regulations would liberate researchers to study treatments that were desperately needed.

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Dorfman offers to liberate people from what you might call the tyranny of the scattered mind.

Two huge constraints impede the government's efforts to liberate the countryside's economic potential.

Mugabe, a serial graduate student, are highly educated men who helped liberate their countries from authoritarian regimes.

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The designer who helped liberate women from boring executive wear and floppy.

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All of this will liberate creativity, improve teaching and learning and bring down costs.

Mitchell faced a familiar problem: how to liberate a place from its violent past.

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World English Dictionary

liberate (ˈlɪbəˌreɪt)

—vb
1.	to give liberty to; make free
2.	to release (something, esp a gas) from chemical combination during a chemical reaction
3.	to release from occupation or subjugation by a foreign power
4.	to free from social prejudices or injustices
5.	euphemistic, facetious or to steal

'liberator

—n

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Word Origin & History

liberate

1620s, from L. liberatus, pp. of liberare "set free," from liber "free" (see liberal). Meaning "to free an occupied territory from the enemy" (often used ironically) is from 1944.

Slang Dictionary

liberate definition

tv.
to steal something. (Originally military.) : We liberated a few reams of paper and a box of pens.

Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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