Both Uses
liberate
in
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
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- The whole crowd of liberated statues surged back into the courtyard.†
p. 188.7liberated = set free
- And they made good laws and kept the peace and saved good trees from being unnecessarily cut down, and liberated young dwarfs... from being sent to school
p. 200.9 *
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) 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).