Crossword clues for freeing
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Free \Free\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freed; p. pr. & vb. n. Freeing.] [OE. freen, freoien, AS. fre['o]gan. See Free, a.]
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To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences.
--Clarendon.Our land is from the rage of tigers freed.
--Dryden.Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke.
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To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of.
This master key Frees every lock, and leads us to his person.
--Dryden. To frank. [Obs.]
--Johnson.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of free English)
WordNet
n. the act of liberating someone or something [syn: liberation, release]
Usage examples of "freeing".
One who was indebted to you, and to whom I was in turn indebted, with the result that I was tasked with arranging your departure from Aren, which I have now done, thus freeing me of further obligationswhich has proved timely, I might add.
Her private war continued, but the objective shifted from harassing the Slavers Bod to freeing as many slaves as possible.
He entertained her and flattered her and kept her busy, freeing Brock to run his estate.
They advocate deregulation of public corporations, lowering taxes, and freeing independent small businesses from state control.
They each removed supplies from their dyre before freeing the animals to graze.
Thus enfeebling the dominion of the senses and the passions over the soul, and as it were freeing the latter from a sordid slavery, and by the steady practice of all the virtues, active and contemplative, our ancient brethren strove to fit themselves to return to the bosom of the Deity.
In his first three appearances, the Escapist along with his eccentric company had toured a thinly fictionalized Europe, in which he wowed the Razi elites of Zothenia, Gothsylvania, Draconia, and other pseudonymous dark bastions of the Iron Chain, while secretly going about his real business of arranging jailbreaks for resistance leaders and captured British airmen, helping great scientists and thinkers out of the clutches of the evil dictator, Attila Haxoff, and freeing captives, missionaries, and prisoners of war.
Letting, his momentum take him, keeping his hold on the framea, Atretes rolled and came to his feet, freeing the weapon and bringing the razor sharp spear point into the abdomen of an attacker.
In a daze, she followed Xenon into the meadow, and like him, slid off her hather, freeing the animal to graze.
The material advantages of the match, in freeing him from hostageship and bringing money and power too, were obvious.
The moonlight was strong enough to give a clear picture of the deck, and as they tacked the men were quicker at freeing a rope or making it fast on cleat, kevil or belaying pin.
Daine helped Kuri to clear a ground-floor storeroom, freeing it to serve as her bedroom.
One fingernail lengthened to slit through the thin lace of her bra, freeing her full breasts from the wispy confines.
The liberationists march around thinking they are freeing themselves and functioning on their own behalf, but I hear their chains rattling.
And he had taken the Styphon temple-farm, a nitriary, freeing the slaves and putting the priests to death.