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• v  give equal rights to; of women and minorities
• v  grant freedom to; free from confinement
• v  grant freedom to
  The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university
• v  release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

• In Cuckoo's Nest the irrepressible inmate Randle McMurphy does battle with the icy, power-mad Nurse Ratched to liberate, or at least breathe a little life into, the crushed and .
• It is this man, Samir Kuntar, the sole surviving member of the cell, that Hizballah leader Hasan Nasrallah promised to liberate this year from an Israeli prison by kidnapping .
• In 1807, he was charged with treason for allegedly masterminding a plot to attack the Spanish colony of Mexico; some claimed he also planned to liberate the Union's Western states .

• emancipate
• free
• release
• unloose
• unloosen
• loose
• set free

• confine

News & Articles

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• Polaroid Fotobar Announces Five Additional Store Locations
  You Take It, We Make It… Liberate Your Photos (PRWeb June 13, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10826592.htm
  June 13, 2013 - PRWeb
• Will NSA leaks wake us from our techno-utopian dream?
  A vast surveillance state is being made possible by the technologies that we were told would liberate us.
  June 10, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• Activists occupy San Francisco urban farm slated for development
  Activists occupying the former site of Hayes Valley Farm said they locked out workers sent to cut trees down Friday and plan a live music event and neighborhood barbecue this weekend. The "Liberate the Land" protestors entered the site at Fell and Laguna streets on Saturday, a day after proprietors of the farm vacated the land. The protesters dubbed the space "Gezi Gardens" after a park in ...
  June 7, 2013 - KTVU

Quotes

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• Osama bin Laden in Ha'aretz
  I had an uncle who was part of the first American troops to go into Auschwitz and liberate the concentration camps. The story in our family was that when he came home, he just went up into the attic and he didn't leave the house for six... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA Newsday http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ats-ap_politics10may27,0,4438429.story%3Fcoll%3Dsns-ap-toppolitics&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGXrIBlY4sCsuKntUkloebTVCN6Dw May 27, 2004 57999 77229 liberate We intend to liberate Palestine, the whole of Palestine from the (Jordan) river to the (Mediterranean) sea, he said. We will not recognize even one inch for Jews in the land of Palestine, as other Muslim leaders have," bin Laden said.
• Nouri al-Maliki in 940 News
  We cannot remain silent about our people and families in Sadr City, Shula and other areas ...... while they are held hostage by gangs that control them,al-Maliki said. "We must liberate (them) because we came into office to serve them."