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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To set free, as from oppression, confinement, or foreign control.
  2. v. Chemistry To release (a gas, for example) from combination.
  3. v. Slang To obtain by illegal or stealthy action: tried to sell appliances that were liberated during the riot.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To set free; release from restraint or bondage; deliver: as, to liberate a slave or a prisoner; to liberate the mind from the shackles of prejudice.
  2. To disengage; separate from something else: as, to liberate a gas from a solid. Synonyms, Enfranchise, Manumit, etc. (see emancipate); Release, etc. (see disengage); disenthrall, ransom, discharge, let go, turn loose.
  3. n. In old English law, a writ issued out of Chancery for the payment of pensions and similar royal allowances; also, a writ issued to the sheriff for the delivery of land and goods taken upon forfeits of recognizance.

Wiktionary

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

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. grant freedom to
  2. v. release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
  3. v. grant freedom to; free from confinement
  4. v. give equal rights to; of women and minorities

Etymologies

  1. From Latin liberatus, past participle of liberare ("to set free, deliver"), from liber ("free"); see liberal. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin līberāre, līberāt-, from līber, free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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