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’.