Both Uses
liberate
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Prisoner B-3087
(Edited)
- Any day now we might be liberated.
p. 167.2liberated = set free
- I was going to be alive when the Allies liberated us.
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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).