All 6 Uses of
liberate
in
Atlas Shrugged
- She thought of this structure, half the size of a boxcar, replacing the power plants of the country, the enormous conglomerations of steel, fuel and effort-she thought of the current flowing from this structure, lifting ounces, pounds, tons of strain from the shoulders of those who would make it or use it, adding hours, days and years of liberated time to their lives, be it an extra moment to lift one's head from one's task and glance at the sunlight, or an extra pack of cigarettes bought with the money saved from one's electric bill, or an hour cut from the workday of every factory using power, or a month's journey through the whole, open width of the world, on a ticket paid for by one day†
Chpt 3.1liberated = set free
- We did not know whether we'd live to see the liberation of the world or whether we'd have to leave our battle and our secret to the next generations.†
Chpt 3.1 *liberation = the act of being set free
- "I am proud," Dr. Robert Stadler read-into the microphone and into the attentive silence of a nation, "that my years of work in the service of science have brought me the honor of placing into the hands of our great leader, Mr. Thompson, a new instrument with an incalculable potential for a civilizing and liberating influence upon the mind of man......"†
Chpt 3.3liberating = setting free
- And yet-he thought —through all the generations of political extortion, it was not the looting bureaucrats who had taken the blame, but the chained industrialists, not the men who peddled legal favors, but the men who were forced to buy them; and through all those generations of crusades against corruption, the remedy had always been, not the liberating of the victims, but the granting of wider powers for extortion to the extortionists.†
Chpt 3.5
- She wondered dimly why she should feel so glad that he had found liberation, so certain that he was right, and yet refuse herself the same deliverance.†
Chpt 3.7liberation = the act of being set free
- We will liberate our culture from the stranglehold of the profit-chasers.†
Chpt 2.2
Definitions:
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(1)
(liberate) to set free -- as from prison, political oppression, persecution, expectations...
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In chemistry liberate can specifically mean to free something (such as a gas) from a compound through chemical reaction. Even more rarely, liberate is used in a humorous way as a synonym for stealing (taking without permission).