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LIBERATE

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

Synonyms:

free; liberate; release

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Hypernyms (to "liberate" is one way to...):

bring forth; generate (bring into existence)

Domain category:

chemical science; chemistry (the science of matter; the branch of the natural sciences dealing with the composition of substances and their properties and reactions)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grant freedom to; free from confinement

Synonyms:

free; liberate; loose; release; unloose; unloosen

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "liberate"):

unspell (release from a spell)

unchain (make free)

bail (release after a security has been paid)

run (set animals loose to graze)

bail out (free on bail)

parole (release a criminal from detention and place him on parole)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sentence example:

They want to liberate the prisoners

Derivation:

liberation (the act of liberating someone or something)

liberator (someone who releases people from captivity or bondage)

liberty (personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Grant freedom to

Example:

The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university

Synonyms:

liberate; set free

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "liberate" is one way to...):

discharge; free (free from obligations or duties)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "liberate"):

affranchise; enfranchise (grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude)

emancipate; manumit (free from slavery or servitude)

decolonise; decolonize (grant independence to (a former colony))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

liberation (the act of liberating someone or something)

liberation (the attempt to achieve equal rights or status)

liberator (someone who releases people from captivity or bondage)

liberty (immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence)

liberty (freedom of choice)

liberty (personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression)

Sense 4

Meaning:

Give equal rights to; of women and minorities

Synonyms:

emancipate; liberate

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Hypernyms (to "liberate" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

liberation (the attempt to achieve equal rights or status)

liberty (immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Mimicking endogenous GSSG, glutathione disulfide NOV-002 acts as a competitive substrate for gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase (GGT), which may result in the S-glutathionylation of proteins, predominantly actin, a redox stress on endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and ER stress-induced apoptosis; S-glutathionylation may be stimulated by reactive oxygen species (ROS) liberated by a glutathione disulfide NOV-002-induced increase in GGT activity.

(Glutathione Disulfide NOV-002, NCI Thesaurus)

Upon infusion into the hepatic artery, oncolytic HSV-1 rRp450 replicates in hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells and exerts direct cytotoxic effects eventually disrupting cancer cell membranes and liberating progeny virions thereby infecting adjacent tumor cells.

(Oncolytic HSV-1 rRp450, NCI Thesaurus)

Opening the window, I walked in upon them; liberated Celine from my protection; gave her notice to vacate her hotel; offered her a purse for immediate exigencies; disregarded screams, hysterics, prayers, protestations, convulsions; made an appointment with the vicomte for a meeting at the Bois de Boulogne.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The grand jury rejected the bill, on its being proved that I was on the Orkney Islands at the hour the body of my friend was found; and a fortnight after my removal I was liberated from prison.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

A constant used also as a unit of electric charge representing the electric charge carried by one mole (an Avogadro's number) of electrons or one equivalent of ions, and equal to the quantity of electricity that is capable of depositing or liberating one gram equivalent weight of a substance in electrolysis, approximately 9.6494E4 coulombs.

(Faraday, NCI Thesaurus)

I abhor artifice, particularly in children; it is my duty to show you that tricks will not answer: you will now stay here an hour longer, and it is only on condition of perfect submission and stillness that I shall liberate you then.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)