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[ US /ˈɫɪˌbɝˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /lˈɪbəɹˌe‍ɪt/ ]
VERB
  1. grant freedom to; free from confinement
  2. give equal rights to; of women and minorities
  3. grant freedom to
    The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university
  4. release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

How To Use liberate In A Sentence

  • Gone was the prim nodus; instead her long hair was parted in the center and allowed to fall loose under a veil, in a deliberate echo of the statuary poses of classical goddesses. Caesars’ Wives
  • Harsh discipline was the child's lot, and they were often terrorized deliberately and, not infrequently, sexually abused.
  • But Labour's focus on abolishing child poverty is not, as he (deliberately) patronisingly claims, for the "aah" factor. Labourhome
  • They've deliberately gone against my wishes and sold the apartment.
  • The interesting element of the game was that it required one to evaluate not films but people; that is, to sift through the prejudices of one’s movie-freak friends and the peccadilloes and quirks of the major reviewers, and by graphing, as it were, what each could be expected to overpraise, underpraise, revile, not notice, or deliberately ignore, one could acquire a very nice sense of the film. Film flam
  • In the end, though, Smith was beginning to realise the futility of trying to liberate a proletariat that seemed quite content to remain unliberated.
  • Their preferences ultimately shaped the place of worship that Warren built, and the result of that consumer-driven approach to creating Saddleback is a deliberately contemporary, highly professionalized operation with a carefully orchestrated feel-good atmosphere. American Grace
  • He deliberately paused outside the door, forcing them to wait in frustration before they dared erupt into excited comment.
  • By 1000 most English bishops were monks, and both bishops and abbots deliberated with lay magnates in the king's council.
  • The terms of the agreement were deliberately vague.
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