All 12 Uses
liberate
in
Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl - Definitive Edition
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- ...the longer the war lasts, the harder it is to imagine being liberated from this place.
p. 290.3liberated = set free
- Every day I feel myself maturing, I feel liberation drawing near, I feel the beauty of nature and the goodness of the people around me.
p. 303.9liberation = the act of being set free
- She used words like "soon, when I'm back in Holland," "a swift liberation," "heroism" and "heavy burdens."
p. 316.7
- The invasion, liberation and freedom will come someday; yet England, not the occupied territories, will choose the moment.
p. 325.8
- Is this really the beginning of the long-awaited liberation?
p. 336.1 *
- The liberation we've all talked so much about, which still seems too good, too much of a fairy tale ever to come true?
p. 336.1
- Yesterday Churchill, Smuts, Eisenhower and Arnold visited the French villages that the British have captured and liberated.
p. 339.4liberated = set free
- Their line of reasoning boils down to this: England must fight, struggle and sacrifice its sons to liberate Holland and the other occupied countries.
p. 339.8
- According to Pim and Mr. van Oaan, we're sure to be liberated before October 10.
p. 346.4
- On April 15, 1945, the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp was liberated by British troops.†
p. 367.7
- On January 16, 1945, Peter van Pels ("van Daan") was transferred in an evacuation march from Auschwitz to Mauthausen (Austria), where he died on May 2, 1945, just three days before the liberation of the camp.†
p. 368.3liberation = the act of being set free
- After the liberation of the Auschwitz-Birkenau labor camp by Russian troops he traveled by ship from Odessa to Marseille.†
p. 368.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(liberate) to set free -- as from prison, political oppression, persecution, expectations...
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(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).