All 15 Uses
liberate
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Doctor Zhivago
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- This was even more important than to liberate himself.†
Chpt 1.4 *liberate = set free
- This glorious holiday, this liberation from the curse of mediocrity, this soaring flight above the dullness of a humdrum existence, was first achieved in their land, proclaimed in their language, and belonged to their racel And they actually saw and heard it and let it gol How could they allow a spirit of such overwhelming power and beauty to leave them, how could they think that after it triumphed and established its reign, they would remain as the empty husk of that miracle they had repudiated?†
Chpt 1.4liberation = the act of being set free
- The feeling of bliss and liberation was still with him.†
Chpt 2.7
- It's so strange that these people who once liberated mankind from the yoke of idolatry, and so many of whom now devote themselves to its liberation from injustice, should be incapable of liberating themselves from their loyalty to an obsolete, antediluvian identity that has lost all meaning, that they should not rise above themselves and dissolve among all the rest whose religion they have founded and who would be so close to them, if they knew them better.†
Chpt 2.9liberated = set free
- It's so strange that these people who once liberated mankind from the yoke of idolatry, and so many of whom now devote themselves to its liberation from injustice, should be incapable of liberating themselves from their loyalty to an obsolete, antediluvian identity that has lost all meaning, that they should not rise above themselves and dissolve among all the rest whose religion they have founded and who would be so close to them, if they knew them better.†
Chpt 2.9liberation = the act of being set free
- It's so strange that these people who once liberated mankind from the yoke of idolatry, and so many of whom now devote themselves to its liberation from injustice, should be incapable of liberating themselves from their loyalty to an obsolete, antediluvian identity that has lost all meaning, that they should not rise above themselves and dissolve among all the rest whose religion they have founded and who would be so close to them, if they knew them better.†
Chpt 2.9liberating = setting free
- He talked about the Liberation of the Personality.†
Chpt 2.10liberation = the act of being set free
- I'll admit that you are Russia's liberators, the shining lights, that without you it would be lost, sunk in misery and ignorance, and I still don't give a damn for any of you, I don't like you and you can all go to the devil.†
Chpt 2.11
- The people you worship go in for proverbs, but they've forgotten one proverb—'You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink'—and they've got into the habit of liberating and of showering benefits on just those people who haven't asked for them.†
Chpt 2.11liberating = setting free
- I suppose I have to bless you for keeping me a prisoner and thank you for liberating me from my wife, my son, my home, my work, from everything I hold dear and that makes life worth living for me!†
Chpt 2.11
- She said that the Reds had liberated her from the Kezhemsk jail where for some unknown reason Kolchak had kept her.†
Chpt 2.12liberated = set free
- She wanted, if only for a few moments, to break free with Yurii's help into the open, out of the sorrows that imprisoned her, to feel again the joy of liberation.†
Chpt 2.15liberation = the act of being set free
- It was such things that had brought them happiness and liberation in those days.†
Chpt 2.15
- In the summer of 1943, after the breakthrough on the Kursk bulge and the liberation of Orel, Gordon, recently promoted to Second Lieutenant, and Major Dudorov were returning to their unit, the one from a service assignment in Moscow, the other from three days' furlough.†
Chpt 2.16
- It was felt not only by men in your position, in concentration camps, but by absolutely everyone, at home and at the front, and they all took a deep breath and flung themselves into the furnace of this mortal, liberating struggle with real joy, with rapture.†
Chpt 2.16liberating = setting free
Definitions:
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(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).