All 10 Uses
liberate
in
Tamar, by Mal Peet
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- You belong to a liberated generation; you believe in freedom of information.†
liberated = set free
- I'm almost as afraid of liberation as I am of anything else.†
*liberation = the act of being set free
- Are you saying, sir, that there will be no effort to liberate the rest of Holland?†
liberate = set free
- But what we are now thinking about is the liberation of Europe.†
liberation = the act of being set free
- The couple escaped across the Rhine, under German fire, shortly before Holland was liberated.†
liberated = set free
- It went on to say that despite "recent setbacks"—Koop snorted at this veiled reference to the Operation Market Garden disaster—an Allied victory in Europe was inevitable and the liberation of all the Netherlands was at hand.†
liberation = the act of being set free
- With liberation soclose, it would be madness to cut that thread by indulging in reckless and provocative activities.†
- I can see no point in dead people being liberated.†
liberated = set free
- Later, when they had "liberated" the Waffen-SS uniforms, they'd taken those to the scrapyard too, concealing them in the workshop's roof space.†
- Wolk, in Rotterdam, explained (with some difficulty) that because of attempts by the resistance to liberate his prisoners, he had transferred his death candidates to The Hague.†
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).