liberate

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"Here are the very same people we had been sent to Iraq to liberate - in other words to help and get out of a bad situation." ...

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

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  • The enemy is the people we are supposedly there to liberate, and the battlefield is the country that we are unrealistically trying to build. —  RANGER AGAINST WAR
  • Philippa: The HP Personal Again campaign was designed to build brand recognition and celebrate the personal aspects of HP technology and its ability to inspire, liberate, and fuel creativity. —  The Madison Avenue Journal
  • The same was done to the draftees being sent to Vietnam, and it is true of the troops trained to "liberate" —  CounterPunch
  • First, he spent heavily to help "liberate" a claimed 140,000 members from UNITE-HERE, mainly from its garment worker side so they could join SEIU instead. —  CounterPunch
  • Even as the Enlightenment sought to "liberate," it only produced "disaster" on a more monumental scale. —  STLtoday.com Top News Headlines
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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Latin līberāre, līberāt-, from līber, free; see leudh- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Latin liberatus, past participle of liberare (later Italian liberare = Spanish Portuguese librar = French livrer), set free, deliver, from liber, free: see liberal. Cf. liver, livery, delivery.
  2. from Middle Latin liberata, delivery, livery: see livery.
 

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/ˈlɪbəreɪt/
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