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   liberate

   /ˈlɪbəreɪt/

   verb

   • 1. set (someone) free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression: "the serfs had been liberated"
   • ▪ free (a place or people) from enemy occupation: "twelve months earlier Paris had been liberated"
   • ▪ release (someone) from a situation which limits freedom of thought or behaviour: "she is liberated from the constraints of an unhappy marriage"
   • ▪ free (someone) from social conventions, especially those concerned with accepted sexual roles: "ways of working politically that liberate women"
   • 2. release (gas, energy, etc.) as a result of chemical reaction or physical decomposition: "the energy liberated by the annihilation of matter is huge"
   • 3. steal (something): informal "the drummer's wearing a beret he's liberated from Lord knows where"

   Word Origin late 16th century: from Latin liberat- ‘freed’, from the verb liberare, from liber ‘free’.

   Scrabble Points: 10

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