liberate

English

Etymology

From Latin liberatus, past participle of liberare (“to set free, deliver”), from liber (“free”); see liberal.

Verb

liberate (third-person singular simple present liberates, present participle liberating, simple past and past participle liberated)

1. (transitive) To free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage.

   to liberate a slave or prisoner

   to liberate the mind from prejudice

   to liberate gases

2. (transitive, euphemistic) To steal or abscond with (something).

   The neighbor's garden gnome is so ugly, I'm tempted to liberate it for them.

Synonyms

• befree, free, set free

Related terms

• liberation
• liberator

Translations

to free

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• Arabic: حرر (ar) (Harrara)
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• Asturian: lliberar (ast)
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• Catalan: alliberar (ca)
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  Mandarin: 解放 (cmn) (jiěfàng)

• Czech: osvobodit (cs)
• Danish: befri (da), frigøre (da)
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• Dutch: bevrijden (nl)
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• Estonian: vabastama (et)
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• Finnish: vapauttaa (fi)
• French: libérer (fr)
• Galician: liberar (gl)
• German: befreien (de)
• Hindi: मुक्त करना (hi) (mukta karanā)
• Japanese: 解放する (ja) (かいほうする, kaihō-suru)
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• Korean: 해방하다 (ko) (haebang-hada) (解放 (ko) + 하다 (ko))

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• Latin: libero (la), liberto (la)
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• Norwegian: frigjøre (no)
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• Persian: آزاد کردن (fa) (âzâd kardan)
• Polish: uwalniać (pl) impf., uwolnić (pl) pf.
• Portuguese: libertar (pt)
• Russian: освобождать (ru) (osvoboždát') impf., освободить (ru) (osvobodít') pf.
• Slovak: oslobodiť (sk)
• Slovene: osvoboditi (sl)
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• Spanish: liberar (es)
• Swedish: frigöra (sv), befria (sv)
• Vietnamese: giải phóng (vi) (解放 (vi))
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to steal or abscond with something

• Latin: libero (la), liberto (la)

External links

• liberate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• liberate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

Anagrams

• iterable

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Italian

Verb

liberate

1. second-person plural present tense of liberare
2. second-person plural imperative of liberare

Anagrams

• albereti, bilatere

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Latin

Verb

līberāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of līberō

Participle

līberāte

1. vocative masculine singular of līberātus