v.
- set free, especially from imprisonment or oppression.
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[as adj. liberated]
free from social conventions, especially with regard to sexual roles.
- Chemistry & Physics release (gas, energy, etc.) as a result of chemical reaction or physical decomposition.
Derivative
- liberation n.
- liberationist n.
- liberator n.
- liberatory adj.
Etymology
C16 (earlier (ME) as liberation): from L. liberat-, liberare ‘to free’, from liber ‘free’.