What is another word for liberates?

Pronunciation: [lˈɪbəɹˌe͡ɪts] (IPA)

The word "liberates" means to free or release from restrictions or oppression. There are several synonyms for this word, including emancipates, unshackles, sets free, delivers, unburdens, disentangles, and uncages. The word emancipates usually refers to freeing someone from slavery or servitude. Unshackles refers to releasing someone from bondage or captivity. When we say someone is "set free," we mean they are released from confinement or imprisonment. A person who delivers us frees us from something or someone that is causing harm or discomfort. To unburden someone means to relieve them of a burden that is weighing them down. Disentangling refers to freeing someone from a complex situation, while uncaging someone refers to releasing them from a cage or confinement.

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Usage examples for Liberates

The news of war liberates something in them that we can find no name for.
"The Desert of Wheat"
Zane Grey
It is the small amount of work required to turn the key which liberates an indeterminate quantity of potential energy.
"The Mechanism of Life"
Stéphane Leduc
Fortifications, like natural accidents of ground, serve to counterbalance superiority of numbers, or other disparity of means; both in land and sea warfare, therefore, and in both strategy and tactics, they are valuable adjuncts to a defence, for they constitute a passive reinforcement of strength, which liberates an active equivalent, in troops or in ships, for offensive operations.
"Lessons of the war with Spain and other articles"
Alfred T. Mahan

Famous quotes with Liberates

  • I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
    Maya Angelou
  • This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes - it liberates young women to pursue married men.
    George Gilder
  • Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
    Stanislav Grof
  • I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
    Keith Haring
  • Fear clogs; faith liberates.
    Elbert Hubbard

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