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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liberate
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
energy
▪ They could simply bounce off one another but this does not liberate any energy.
▪ When two deuterons fuse together at low energy, the neutron is liberated with an energy of 2.45 MeV.
woman
▪ Everything changed for both sexes, but it was particularly liberating for women.
▪ But while the new physically fit ideal was liberating to women, it would lead to more self-consciousness about their bodies.
▪ Sometimes, however, polygamy could be liberating for a woman because the burden of household duties was shared.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Algeria was liberated from France in 1962.
▪ Poland, the Czech Republic, and other countries liberated from Soviet rule have done very well economically.
▪ The city was liberated by the Allies in 1944.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ All talk of liberating iron curtain capitals disappeared.
▪ Both Lena and I felt we had been liberated as actress and director.
▪ But he is liberated by love.
▪ It was really liberating to finally put my destiny in the hands of millions of people, as opposed to ten people.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Liberate

Liberate \Lib"er*ate\ (-[=a]t), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Liberated (-[=a]`t[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Liberating (-[=a]`t[i^]ng).] [L. liberatus, p. p. of liberare to free, fr. liber free. See Liberal,

  1. , and cf. Deliver.] To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

    Syn: To deliver; free; release. See Deliver.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
liberate

1620s, from Latin liberatus, past participle of liberare "set free," from liber "free" (see liberal). Meaning "to free an occupied territory from the enemy" (often used ironically) is from 1942. Related: Liberated; liberating.

Wiktionary
liberate

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To free; to release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to manumit; to disengage. 2 (context transitive euphemistic English) To steal or abscond with (something).

WordNet
liberate
  1. v. give equal rights to; of women and minorities [syn: emancipate]

  2. grant freedom to; free from confinement [syn: free, release, unloose, unloosen, loose] [ant: confine]

  3. grant freedom to; "The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university" [syn: set free]

Wikipedia
Liberate (song)

"Liberate" is a song by the American heavy metal band Disturbed. The song was released as the third and last single from their second studio album, Believe. The word "fuck" is used 17 times as the word "motherfucker".

The single peaked at number 21 on the Bubbling Under Hot 100 Singles chart, number 4 in the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and number 22 in the Modern Rock Tracks chart.

Liberate (Eric Prydz song)

"Liberate" is a single by Swedish DJ and producer Eric Prydz. The song was released as a digital download on 3 June 2014 as the second single from his debut studio album Opus (2016). The song was written by Eric Prydz and Tom Cane. It peaked to number 71 on the UK Singles Chart. The song hit worldwide recognition when it became the title song of Forza Horizon 2.

Usage examples of "liberate".

This shows that ferric acetate liberates iodine under the conditions of the assay.

Without this no amphibious operations on the enormous scale required to liberate Europe would have been possible.

Judge take care not to take any further action in respect of the appellant, such as arresting him, or questioning him, or liberating him from prison, from the time when the appeal is presented to him up to the time when he has returned negative apostils.

Judge take care not to commence any new proceedings against the appellant, by arresting him or, if he is in custody, liberating him from prison, from the time of the presentation of the appeal up to the time of the return of negative apostils to him.

A subjective viewpoint, tailored to fit what the drunk tank prisoners saw, the assaulters trying to flee the cellblock and liberate other inmates.

The acetylcholine liberated at the axon endings of one nerve will affect the dendrites, or even the cell body itself, across the synapse and initiate a new nerve impulse there.

Like the Admiral, the Ayatollah had had a close and trusted friend liberated from the Nimrod Jail.

This person was an old negro, bewrinkled by years, becrippled by ague, once stone deaf, and still partially so, half blind, and reputed to be only half wise, a liberated slave from the Sahara, just able to read the Koran and the Torah, and willing to teach either impartially, according to his knowledge, for he was neither a Jew nor a Muslim, but a little of both, as he used to say, and not too much of either.

On the west coast British, American, and French forces were continually in action, bombarding and harassing the enemy, driving off persistent attacks by light craft and midget submarines, and clearing mines in the liberated ports.

We have great need to sustain our bombarding fleet, which may have to deal with Cherbourg, and will certainly be required for the flanks of the liberating armies.

Four days later Brocard and the son, on being liberated, returned home, and after a search, found the bodies.

The fabric flapped like a liberated bird, suddenly catching the wind and throwing the boom hard to port, catching Brod and knocking him into Maia.

I told her I should be delighted to see him, and then I informed her that the operation by which she was to become a man could not be performed till Querilinto, one of the three chiefs of the Fraternity of the Rosy Cross, was liberated from the dungeons of the Inquisition, at Lisbon.

To automatically assume that differentiation of roles is the result of domination is to automatically define a particular group as victim, which automatically and irrevocably disempowers that group in the very attempt to liberate it.

A gift to the god from his faithful worshippers, the ecclesiarch explained, the temple commemorated the millennial year of his arrival to liberate the mother planet from the follies of the aging Creators and the demonic malevolence of their last Creation.