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FREEING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of liberating someone or something
Synonyms:
freeing; liberation; release
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("freeing" is a kind of...):
accomplishment; achievement (the action of accomplishing something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "freeing"):
jail delivery (the use of force to liberate prisoners)
deregulating; deregulation (the act of freeing from regulation (especially from governmental regulations))
relief (the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged)
disentanglement; extrication; unsnarling; untangling (the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition)
emancipation (freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child)
clearing (the act of freeing from suspicion)
manumission (the formal act of freeing from slavery)
parole ((law) a conditional release from imprisonment that entitles the person to serve the remainder of the sentence outside the prison as long as the terms of release are complied with)
probation ((law) a way of dealing with offenders without imprisoning them; a defendant found guilty of a crime is released by the court without imprisonment subject to conditions imposed by the court)
Derivation:
free (grant freedom to; free from confinement)
free (free from obligations or duties)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb free
