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   liberate

   /ˈlɪbəreɪt/

   verb

   • 1. set (someone) free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression: "the serfs had been liberated"
   • ▪ free (a place or people) from enemy occupation: "twelve months earlier Paris had been liberated"
   • ▪ release (someone) from a situation which limits freedom of thought or behaviour: "she is liberated from the constraints of an unhappy marriage"
   • ▪ free (someone) from social conventions, especially those concerned with accepted sexual roles: "ways of working politically that liberate women"
   • 2. release (gas, energy, etc.) as a result of chemical reaction or physical decomposition: "the energy liberated by the annihilation of matter is huge"
   • 3. steal (something): informal "the drummer's wearing a beret he's liberated from Lord knows where"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from Latin liberat- ‘freed’, from the verb liberare, from liber ‘free’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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   LIBERATE definition: 1. to help someone or something to be free: 2. to steal something: 3. to help someone or…. Learn more.

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   The meaning of LIBERATE is to set at liberty : free; specifically : to free (something, such as a country) from domination by a foreign power. How to use liberate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Liberate.

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   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. liberate. / ˈlɪbəˌreɪt / verb.

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   Definition of liberate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

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   To liberate a place or the people in it means to free them from the political or military control of another country, area, or group of people.

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   LIBERATE meaning: 1. to help someone or something to be free: 2. to steal something: 3. to help someone or…. Learn more.

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   To liberate something means to release it from confinement. As the saying goes, "If you love something, set it free," — liberate it.