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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
liberated
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And she was Rabelaisian, rather surprising, liberated fun.
▪ He got plenty of work done there; he made friends; he felt liberated and enjoyed himself.
▪ He had been touring in the liberated areas trying to get agriculture going again.
▪ It would be wrong to suggest that women were a liberated force for female emancipation in Huaiwiri.
▪ She was perfectly content and regarded the liberated woman as a creature to be pitied.
▪ That openness to liberated desire is cut off in the films which the Boxes produce.
▪ Their liberated lives could not be carried on in the child-centred suburbs.
▪ Who can blame a liberated woman for not settling for slavery?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
liberated

liberated \liberated\ adj. (Chem.)

  1. released from chemical combination, or as a consequence of chemical reaction; -- of a gas.

  2. freed from bondage; -- of people.

    Syn: emancipated, freed.

  3. free from traditional social restraints; as, a liberated lifestyle.

    Syn: emancipated.

  4. stolen. [jocose]

Wiktionary
liberated
  1. freed, especially from traditional ideas in social and sexual matters. v

  2. (en-past of: liberate)

WordNet
liberated
  1. adj. (of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination

  2. freed from bondage [syn: emancipated, freed]

  3. free from traditional social restraints; "an emancipated young woman pursuing her career"; "a liberated lifestyle" [syn: emancipated]

Usage examples of "liberated".

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.

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 the high honor of Kentucky, as I am informed, she is the owner of some slaves by escheat, and has sold none, but liberated all.

Those who argued against this theory claimed that it projected human emotions and attitudes into a nonhuman organism, that the Mek had every reason to feel gratitude toward the gentlemen who had liberated him from the conditions of Etamin Nine.

This may be got rid of by boiling in aqua regia, and dissolving out the tungstic acid which has been liberated by means of ammonia.

In most cases, of course, the rescuee was immediately liberated from the covenant.

A liberated sigil retains its efficacy, without exacting the former pain-price.

After the long legal process ahead, Neville Skeate was liberated, but I never heard that he returned to the Candy Crocodile.

The torchy villagers had stormed the castle, trashed the place, liberated the occupants, buried the dead, comforted the survivors.

Having turned Claire over to Twindle, Jem stood below, catching the newly liberated pieces and assembling them into a pile.