liberate
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
< Latin liberatus, pp. of liberare (“‘to set free, deliver’”) < liber (“‘free’”); see liberal.
[edit] Verb
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to liberate (third-person singular simple present liberates, present participle liberating, simple past and past participle liberated)
- (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
- (transitive, euphemism) to steal or abscond with (something)
- The neighbor's garden gnome is so ugly, I'm tempted to liberate it for them.
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[edit] Translations
to free
to steal or abscond with something
[edit] External links
- liberate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- liberate in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of abeeilrt
- iterable
[edit] Italian
[edit] Verb
liberate
- second-person plural present tense of liberare
- second-person plural imperative of liberare
[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of abeeilrt
- albereti
[edit] Latin
[edit] Participle
līberāte
- vocative masculine singular of līberātus