Liberate
['lɪbəreɪt] or ['lɪbə'ret]
Definition
(verb.) grant freedom to; 'The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university'.
Checked by Irving--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.
Typist: Mabel
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Release, free, emancipate, manumit, disinthrall, ransom, discharge, deliver, set free, set at liberty, let go, let loose, let out.
Checked by Leon
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONFINE]
Typed by Emile
Examples
- The acid used to liberate the chlorine from the bleaching powder, and the chlorine also, rot materials with which they remain in contact for any length of time. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The people of Anagni did resent the first outrage, and rose against Nogaret to liberate Boniface, but then Anagni was the Pope's native town. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The building was equipped in such a manner that the striking of the fire-alarm would light every lamp in the house automatically and liberate the horses. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- It must suggest the kind of environment needed to liberate and to organize their capacities. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I should be very grateful if you would liberate me as soon as possible, without waiting for the expiration of the month's notice. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Later, Gyges rebelled against Assyria, and sent troops to help Psammetichus I to liberate Egypt from its brief servitude to the Assyrians. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The mingling liquids interact and liberate carbon dioxide. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- At other times, free balloons are liberated, carrying sets of automatic registering instruments. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I passed but one day in confinement; in the evening I was liberated, as I was told, by the order of the Earl himself. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you not, dad? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Many republicans wanted it because they wished to see the kindred people of Belgium liberated from the Austrian yoke. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- At last a mitigation of the patient's most urgent symptoms (acute pain is one of its accompaniments) liberated me, and I set out homeward. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And at last he liberated me on parole. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This dark, subtle reality of him, never to be translated, liberated her into perfection, her own perfected being. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They had grown accustomed to a humanly liberating atmosphere in which formality was an instrument instead of an idol. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The chlorine liberates oxygen from the water. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- This liberates carbon dioxide. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The chlorine thus set free reacts with the water and liberates oxygen; this in turn destroys the coloring matter in the fibers, and transforms the material into a bleached product. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
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