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lib·er·ate
 liberate
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- pronunciation:
- lI
b
reIt
- features:
- Word Combinations (verb), Word Parts
| part of speech: |
transitive verb |
| inflections: |
liberates, liberating, liberated |
| definition 1: |
to free or release, esp. from bondage, oppression, or captivity.
Troops liberated the prisoners in the camps at the war's end.She felt constrained at home, but going back to school liberated her.After we'd each caught several lightning bugs in our jars, we liberated them all at once.- synonyms:
- deliver, emancipate, enfranchise, free, manumit, release, spring, unfetter
- antonyms:
- enslave, imprison, seize, subjugate, take
- similar words:
- acquit, amnesty, extricate, loose, ransom, relieve, rescue, untie, unyoke
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| definition 2: |
(informal) to steal or loot, esp. in wartime.
Some of the guys liberated the wine cellar of the old hotel.- synonyms:
- appropriate, loot, plunder, snatch
- similar words:
- lift, pilfer, pillage, pocket, raid, snitch
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| related words: |
absolve, deliver, discharge, pardon, redeem, rid, save, spare, spring, steal |
adverb + (v.)liberate
fully, newly, precisely, sexually, truly
(v.)liberate
+ adverb
last
(v.)liberate
+ noun
army,
being,
bondage,
burden,
camp,
carbon,
colonialism,
colony,
communism,
concentration,
confinement,
constraint,
continent,
country,
creativity,
ego,
energy,
fullness,
homeland,
humanity,
hydrogen,
imagination,
iraqis,
land,
lobster,
mankind,
mind,
mosque,
necessity,
obligation,
occupation,
oppression,
oppressor,
oxygen,
prejudice,
prisoner,
restriction,
shackle,
slavery,
spirit,
theologian,
tutelage,
tyranny
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| derivations: |
liberation (n.), liberator (n.) |
The word liberate
contains the following parts:
liber1
Latin
root
that means free
  Example words:
-ate1
Latin
verb-forming suffix
that means to make, cause, do
More about this word part:
The suffix -ate
primarily forms transitive verbs from Latin bases. Many -ate
verbs were loanwords from Latin. Verbs ending in -ate
combine with the suffix -ion to form nouns ending in -ation. These verbs also have corresponding agent nouns ending in -ator (navigator, dictator, elevator).
Example words:
abbreviate, abdicate, abnegate, accelerate, accommodate, accumulate, activate, adequate, adjudicate, administrate, administrative, administrator, advocate, aerate, affiliate, agglomerate, agglutinate, aggravate, agitate, alienate, allocate, alternate, animate, annihilate, annotate, arrogate, aspirate, assimilate, associate, calibrate, capitulate, cerebrate, circulate, collaborate, collocate, commemorate, complicate, concentrate, congregate, consecrate, consummate, cooperate, coordinate, decapitate, decelerate, decerebrate, decimate, dedicate, dehydrate, deliberate, derogate, desecrate, dictate, disintegrate, dislocate, dissimulate, dissociate, divagate, domesticate, dominate, donate, duplicate, educate, elaborate, elevate, elongate, elucidate, emasculate, emigrate, enervate, enunciate, equate, equivocate, eradicate, evacuate, exasperate, exfoliate, expurgate, fluctuate, formulate, generate, gradate, graduate, gyrate, illuminate, illustrate, implicate, incorporate, indoctrinate, innovate, interpellate, interrogate, irradiate, irrigate, legislate, liberate, locate, mediate, motivate, narrate, navigate, negate, nominate, obliterate, operate, orate, originate, ovulate, palpate, participate, placate, populate, prognosticate, proliferate, radiate, regulate, resonate, rotate, segregate, simulate, subjugate, terminate, vacate, validate, contraindicate
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