liberate🔊

To set free, to make or allow to be free.

To release from slavery: to manumit.

To release from servitude or unjust rule.

To release from restraint or inhibition.

(chemistry) To release from chemical bonds or solutions.

(military, euphemistic) To acquire from an enemy during wartime, used especially of cities, regions, and other population centers.

(euphemistic) To acquire from another by theft or force: to steal, to rob.