liberate

IPA: ɫˈɪbɝeɪt

verb

(transitive) To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
To release from slavery: to manumit.
To release from servitude or unjust rule.
To release from restraint or inhibition.
(chemistry) To release from chemical bonds or solutions.
(transitive, military, euphemistic) To acquire from an enemy during wartime, used especially of cities, regions, and other population centers.
(transitive, euphemistic) To acquire from another by theft or force: to steal, to rob.

Examples of "liberate" in Sentences

So we're going to fight over the use of the word liberate now?
She delves into the language itself, a language she wants to liberate from the fetters of race.
It remained for the 20th century to "liberate" them from their good sense and their adequate clothing.
He used the word liberate, that this is going to liberate Arlen Specter to work with us on health care.
"Here are the very same people we had been sent to Iraq to liberate - in other words to help and get out of a bad situation." ...
Liberal is derived from the word liberate, ... meaning "freedom", and I can ` t see anything wrong with being free to choose a liberal to the supreme court.
But we were never the allies of the Athenians in their design of subjugating Hellas; we were really the allies of the Hellenes, whom we sought to liberate from the Persians.
The people who invented the modern piece were trying to "liberate" women from the underpinings of the former century and make something that could be worn with the new fashions.
Because, as the president has said, particularly vis-a-vis Afghanistan, we did not go into Afghanistan to conquer; we went in to liberate, which is exactly how the people of Afghanistan reacted when they had their cities and their towns returned to them.
Assuming that General Halleck will complete the work he has so successfully commenced, he will liberate from the forced pressure put upon it by the Secessionists the whole amount of loyal sentiment diffused through the Border States, and, from being held in abeyance, it will become dominant.

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