LIBERATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liberate mean? 

• LIBERATE (verb)
  The verb LIBERATE has 4 senses:

1. give equal rights to; of women and minorities

2. grant freedom to; free from confinement

3. grant freedom to

4. release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

  Familiarity information: LIBERATE used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIBERATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they liberate    ... he / she / it liberates   
Past simple: liberated   
Past participle: liberated   
-ing form: liberating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Give equal rights to; of women and minorities

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

emancipate; liberate

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Grant freedom to; free from confinement

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

free; liberate; loose; release; unloose; unloosen

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

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

liberate; set free

Context example:

The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university

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:

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

Classified under:

Verbs of sewing, baking, painting, performing

Synonyms:

free; liberate; release

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

 Context examples 

Proteolytic processing of the carboxy end liberates endostatin, an angiogenesis inhibitor.

(Collagen XVIII (Alpha 1), NCI Thesaurus)

Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate acts as an intermediate in the IP3/DAG pathway, hydrolyzed by phospholipase C and liberating diacylglycerol and PIP2, which activate Protein Kinase C and calcium release from the endoplasmic reticulum, respectively.

(Inositol 1,4,5-Trisphosphate, NCI Thesaurus)

Interaction with ligand leads to two additional proteolytic cleavages that liberate the Notch intracellular domain (NICD) from the plasma membrane.

(Notch Signaling Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

You will be circulating among many smiling, friendly people now who will introduce you to new ideas and interests, so this new trend will be quite liberating and refreshing.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Intracellular calcium increases induced by thrombin activate phospholipase A2, liberating arachidonic acid, the first step in prostaglandin and thromboxane biosynthesis.

(Aspirin Inhibition of Platelet Activation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Before many minutes had passed a pack of them poured, like a pent-up dam when liberated, through the wide entrance into the courtyard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When a stream of meteoroids rains down on the lunar surface, the liberated water will enter the exosphere and spread through it.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

“You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you not, dad?” she asked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Upon hydrolysis of artesunate's active endoperoxide bridge moiety by liberated heme in parasite-infected red blood cells, reactive oxygen species and carbon-centered radicals form, which have been shown to damage and kill parasitic organisms.

(Artesunate, NCI Thesaurus)

It is also is used by nutritionists in measuring the energy-producing potential of food as a unit of potential energy contained by a substance, which can be liberated when the material is oxidized, usually by combustion in the presence of oxygen.

(Calorie, NCI Thesaurus)