liberate
- IPA[ˈlibəˌrāt]
美式
- set (someone) free from a situation, especially imprisonment or slavery, in which their liberty is severely restricted；free (a country, city, or people) from enemy occupation
verb: liberate, 3rd person present: liberates, gerund or present participle: liberating, past tense: liberated, past participle: liberated
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動詞
- 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
- freeing a place or people from enemy occupation: the majestic entrance of the liberating army
Oxford Dictionary
- (of a person) showing freedom from social conventions or traditional ideas, especially with ... the modern image of the independent, liberated woman
Oxford American Dictionary
- freeing a place or people from enemy occupation: the majestic entrance of the liberating army
Oxford American Dictionary
- (of a person) free from social conventions or traditional ideas, especially with regard to ... the modern image of the independent, liberated woman
Oxford Dictionary
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- IPA[ˈlɪbəreɪt]
英式
- set (someone) free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression: the serfs had been liberated
Oxford Dictionary
