FREEING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does freeing mean? 

• FREEING (noun)
  The noun FREEING has 1 sense:

1. the act of liberating someone or something

  Familiarity information: FREEING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FREEING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of liberating someone or something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

freeing; liberation; release

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)

 Context examples 

BTAF1 inhibits TBP-driven RNA polymerase II and III transcription by driving the dissociation of TBP from DNA and freeing the TBP to associate with other TATA boxes or TATA-less promoters.

(B-TFIID Subunit Gene, NCI Thesaurus)

"Like scoring a plate of glass, the trough renders the shelf weak, and in a few decades, it's gone, freeing the ice sheet to ride out faster into the ocean."

(Scientists describe how 'upside-down rivers' of warm water break Antarctica's ice shelf, Wikinews)

This means that the microcapsules could remain functional for about five rain cycles, freeing one fifth of their content at a time.

(Thyme oil and corn starch prove deadly for mosquito larvae, SciDev.Net)