liberate

CEFRC1

/ˈlɪbəɹeɪt/

verb

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In plain English

  1. 01

    verb

    To free someone from control, imprisonment, or an unpleasant situation.

  2. 02

    verb

    Extra detail

    Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release., To free (someone or something) from discriminatory or oppressive attitudes, inhibition, or restraint.

Examples

  • Work doesn't liberate, it eventually makes you tired.

  • Since the reaction liberates a large amount of chlorine gas, a powerful ventilation system is recommended.

At a glance

Sits at C1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
1
Citations
5
Synonyms
5

Also pronounced

  • [-ɾi]
  • /ˈlɪbəɹet/

Deep Dive

verb

Extra meanings

  1. To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly

  2. Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.

  3. To free (someone or something) from discriminatory or oppressive attitudes, inhibition, or restraint.

More examples

In context

  • We didn’t need IDs. We just liberated these beers from the back of the shop.

  • You need to free your mind and liberate yourself from prejudice.

  • We must liberate her.

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Origin

verb

Learned borrowing from Latin līberātus (“freed, liberated; absolved, acquitted; released”); see English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and used as the ending of participial adjectives and obsolete past participles from Latin). Līberātus is the perfect passive participle of līberō (“to free, liberate; to absolve, acquit; to release”), from līber (“free, unrestricted”), + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); and līberō is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰeros (“free”), from *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; people”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix) (*h₁léwdʰeros possibly originally meant ‘belonging to one’s own people’, excluding slaves who were captured fr...