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

• Afrikaans: bevry
• Albanian: liroj, çliroj (sq)
• Amharic: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: حرر (ḥarrara)
• Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: ազատագրել (azatagrel)
• Asturian: lliberar
• Azeri: azad etmək
• Belarusian: вызваляць impf (vyzvaljácʹ), вызваліць pf (výzvalicʹ)
• Breton: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: освобождавам (bg) impf (osvoboždávam), освободя pf (osvobodjá)
• Burmese: လွတ်မြောက်စေ (lwatmraukce)
• Catalan: alliberar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 解放 (zh) (jiěfàng)

• Czech: osvobozovat impf, osvobodit (cs) pf
• Danish: befri, frigøre
• Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
• Dutch: bevrijden (nl)
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Estonian: vabastama (et)
• Extremaduran: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: vapauttaa (fi)
• French: libérer (fr)
• Galician: liberar (gl)
• Georgian: გათავისუფლება (gat’avisup’leba)
• German: befreien (de)
• Greek: ελευθερώνω (el) (eleftheróno)
• Hindi: मुक्त करना (mukta karanā)
• Icelandic: frelsa (is)

• Ido: libereskar (io)
• Japanese: 解放する (ja) (かいほうする, kaihō-suru)
• Khmer: រំដោះ (km) (rumdɑh)
• Korean: 해방하다 (ko) (haebang-hada) (解放 (ko) + 하다 (ko) (hada))
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: libero, liberto
• Latvian: atbrīvot
• Lithuanian: išlaisvinti, išvaduoti
• Luxembourgish: please add this translation if you can
• Macedonian: ослободува impf (oslobóduva), ослободи pf (oslóbodi)
• Maori: whakawātea, wewete
• Mirandese: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian: frigjøre
• Pashto: please add this translation if you can
• Persian: آزاد کردن (fa) (âzâd kardan)
• Polish: uwalniać (pl) impf, uwolnić (pl) pf
• Portuguese: libertar (pt)
• Russian: освобождать (ru) impf (osvoboždátʹ), освободить (ru) pf (osvobodítʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ослобађати impf, ослободити pf

  Roman: oslobađati impf, osloboditi pf

• Slovak: oslobodzovať impf, oslobodiť (sk) pf
• Slovene: osvobajati impf, osvoboditi pf
• Somali: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: liberar (es)
• Swedish: frigöra, befria (sv)
• Turkish: serbest bırakmak (tr)
• Ukrainian: звільняти impf (zvilʹnjáty), звільнити pf (zvilʹnýty), визволяти impf (vyzvoljáty), визволити pf (výzvolyty)
• Vietnamese: giải phóng (vi) (解放)
• Volapük: please add this translation if you can
• Walloon: please add this translation if you can

to steal or abscond with something

• Latin: libero, liberto

§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 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