Liberate

Verb

 * 1)  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
 * 1)  to steal or abscond with (something)
 * The neighbor's garden gnome is so ugly, I'm tempted to liberate it for them.

Related terms

 * liberation
 * liberator

Adverbs for Liberate
promptly;  magnanimously;   industrially; philosophically;  politically;   temporarily; economically; nobly; rationally; partially; subversively.

Thesaurus
affranchise, appropriate, cast off, clear, deliver, detach, disburden, discharge, disembarrass, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disenthrall, disinvolve, doff, ease, emancipate, enfranchise, extract, extricate, free, free up, let go, let loose, let off, let out, loose, loosen, manumit, pilfer, purloin, ransom, recover, redeem, release, remove, rescue, retrieve, salvage, save, set at large, set at liberty, set free, steal, take, take off, unbar, unbind, unbolt, unbuckle, unbutton, unchain, unclasp, unclutter, undo, unfasten, unfetter, unglue, unlace, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unloosen, unscramble, unshackle, unsnarl, unstick, unstrap, untangle, untie, weigh anchor

Etymology
< liberatus:, past participle of liberare: < liber:; see liberal.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Japanese: 解放する
 * Latin: libero, liberto
 * Russian: освобождать (osvoboždát'), освободить (osvobodít')
 * Spanish:


 * Latin: libero, liberto

Anagrams

 * iterable

Verb
liberate


 * 1) second-person plural present tense of liberare
 * 2) second-person plural imperative of liberare

Anagrams

 * albereti, bilatere