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liberated Definition


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liberate
verb, tr & intr liberated, liberating
    1. To set free.
      Thesaurus: emancipate, free, release, discharge, let go, enfranchise, unchain, unfetter, rescue; Antonym: enslave.
    2. To free (a country) from enemy occupation.
    3. To free from accepted moral or social conventions or from traditional gender-based roles.
    4. chem.
      To give off (a gas).
Etymology: 17c: from Latin liberare to free.





liberated
adj
    1. Not bound by traditional ideas about sexuality, morality, the roles conventionally assigned to men and women, etc.
    2. Freed from enemy occupation.


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