liberate
/ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.24 in modern English
10
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.
Transitive verb
verb
Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.
Transitive verb
verb
Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.
Transitive verb
verb
Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.
Transitive verb
verb
Often followed by from: to allow or cause (someone or something) to be free; to set free, to release.
Transitive verb
Example Sentences
- "Thus ſitting and ſurveying thus at eaſe / The globe and its concerns, I ſeem advanced / To ſome ſecure and more than mortal height, / That lib'rates and exempts me from them all."
- "[T]he prisoner being liberate in manner foresaid, it shall not be lawful to put or detain him in prison for the same crime, under the penalty of wrongous imprisonment, […]"
- "This is not a time for telling stories, when I am in this prison; but when thou liberatest me, I will relate to thee their case."
- "Walking slow to beating bosom surest solace soonest gives, / Liberates the brain o'erloaded—best of all restoratives."
- "The Doctrine [of the Bardo Thödol] is one which liberateth by being seen, without need of meditation or of sādhanā [perfected devotion]; this Profound Teaching liberateth by being heard or being seen. This Profound Teaching liberateth those of great evil karma through the Secret Pathway."
- "In Great Britain, where a vigorous antivivisection movement has existed for more than a century, a clandestine group called the Animal Liberation Front conducts commando-style raids on laboratories, liberating animals and sabotaging research equipment."
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin līberātus (“freed, liberated; absolved, acquitted; released”); see English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and used as the ending of participial adjectives and obsolete past participles from Latin). Līberātus is the perfect passive participle of līberō (“to free, liberate; to absolve, acquit; to release”), from līber (“free, unrestricted”), + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); and līberō is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰeros (“free”), from *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; people”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix) (*h₁léwdʰeros possibly originally meant ‘belonging to one’s own people’, excluding slaves who were captured from other groups of people, and thus later came to mean “free (not enslaved)”). Not related to deliberate.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *h₁lewdʰ-, *h₁léwdʰeros, liberate, līberāte
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlɪbəˌɹeɪt/
- British English: /ˈlɪbəɹeɪt/
Usage
- Transitive verb
- Informal
- Obsolete
- British usage
- American usage
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in Law.
Inflected Forms
liberates (present, singular)
liberating (participle, present)
liberated (past)
liberated (participle, past)
no-table-tags (table tags)
glossary (inflection template)
liberated (first person, past)
liberatest (archaic, present)
liberated (past, second person)
liberatedst (archaic, past)
liberateth (archaic, present)
liberated (past, singular)
Derived Forms
Phrases
liberate day
liberate roll