搜尋結果
liberate
- IPA[ˈlɪbəreɪt]
英式
- set (someone) free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression；free (a place or people) from enemy occupation
verb: liberate, 3rd person present: liberates, gerund or present participle: liberating, past tense: liberated, past participle: liberated
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. set (someone) free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression the serfs had been liberated
- ▪ free (a place or people) from enemy occupation twelve months earlier Paris had been liberated
- ▪ release (someone) from a situation which limits freedom of thought or behaviour she is liberated from the constraints of an unhappy marriage
- ▪ free (someone) from social conventions, especially those concerned with accepted sexual roles ways of working politically that liberate women
- 2. release (gas, energy, etc.) as a result of chemical reaction or physical decomposition the energy liberated by the annihilation of matter is huge
- 3. informal steal (something) the drummer's wearing a beret he's liberated from Lord knows where
