1. set (someone) free from a situation, especially imprisonment or slavery, in which their liberty is severely restricted: "the serfs had been liberated"
▪ free (a country, city, or people) from enemy occupation: "twelve months earlier Paris had been liberated"
▪ release (someone) from a state or situation that limits freedom of thought or behavior: "the use of computers can liberate students from the constraints of disabilities"
▪ free (someone) from rigid social conventions, especially those concerned with accepted sexual roles: "ways of working politically that liberate women"
▪ steal (something): "the drummer's wearing a beret he's liberated from Lord knows where"
▪ release (gas, energy, etc.) as a result of chemical reaction or physical decomposition:"energy liberated by the annihilation of matter"
Word Originlate 16th century: from Latin liberat- ‘freed’, from the verb liberare, from liber ‘free’.
