Word Meanings - LIBERATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases. Syn. -- To deliver; free; release. See Deliver.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LIBERATE)

• Absolve
• Acquit
• release
• exonerate
• liberate
• exempt
• discharge
• exculpate
• pardon
• forgive
• free
• clear
• Discharge
• absolve
• dismiss
• Affranchise
• Free
• enfranchise
• manumit
• qualify
• open
• Clean Clarify
• disencumber
• disentangle
• disembarrass
• vindicate
• set free
• justify
• retrieve
• acquit
• whitewash
• extricate
• eliminate
• Deliver
• Liberate
• save
• utter
• surrender
• yield
• transmit
• concede
• give up
• rescue
• pronounce
• hand
• give
• entrust
• consign

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LIBERATE)

• Bind
• constrain
• confine
• shackle
• fetter
• yoke
• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose
• Recal
• suppress
• repress
• hush
• stifle
• check
• swallow

Related words: (words related to LIBERATE)

• DELIVERANCE
  Any fact or truth which is decisively attested or intuitively known as a psychological or philosophical datum; as, the deliverance of consciousness. (more info) 1. The act of delivering or freeing from restraint, captivity, peril, and the like;
• CHECKWORK
  Anything made so as to form alternate squares lke those of a checkerboard.
• DISMISSIVE
  Giving dismission.
• CLEANSABLE
  Capable of being cleansed. Sherwood.
• CONSIGNER
  One who consigns. See Consignor.
• PARDON
  A release, by a sovereign, or officer having jurisdiction, from the penalties of an offense, being distinguished from amenesty, which is a general obliteration and canceling of a particular line of past offenses. Syn. -- Forgiveness; remission.
• STIFLED
  Stifling. The close and stifled study. Hawthorne.
• CLEAN-CUT
  See CLEAR-CUT
• CLEARLY
  In a clear manner.
• ELIMINATE
  To cause to disappear from an equation; as, to eliminate an unknown quantity. 3. To set aside as unimportant in a process of inductive inquiry; to leave out of consideration. Eliminate errors that have been gathering and accumulating. Lowth. 4.
• TRANSMITTER
  One who, or that which, transmits; specifically, that portion of a telegraphic or telephonic instrument by means of which a message is sent; -- opposed to receiver.
• DISMISSAL
  Dismission; discharge. Officeholders were commanded faithfully to enforce it, upon pain of immediate dismissal. Motley.
• CLEANNESS
  1. The state or quality of being clean. 2. Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses. Chaucer.
• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• CLEARER
  A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
• DELIVERABLE
  Capable of being, or about to be, delivered; necessary to be delivered. Hale.
• SUPPRESSOR
  One who suppresses.
• SWALLOWFISH
  The European sapphirine gurnard . It has large pectoral fins.
• UTTERLY
  In an utter manner; to the full extent; fully; totally; as, utterly ruined; it is utterly vain.
• UTTERNESS
  The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.
• ACQUIT
  Acquitted; set free; rid of. Shak.
• UNUTTERABLE
  Not utterable; incapable of being spoken or voiced; inexpressible; ineffable; unspeakable; as, unutterable anguish. Sighed and looked unutterable things. Thomson. -- Un*ut"ter*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*ut"ter*a*bly, adv.
• MUTTERER
  One who mutters.
• REDELIVER
  1. To deliver or give back; to return. Ay 2. To deliver or liberate a second time or again. 3. To report; to deliver the answer of. "Shall I redeliver you e'en so" Shak.
• CONFINER
  One who, or that which, limits or restrains.
• RELEASE
  To lease again; to grant a new lease of; to let back.
• GUTTER
  1. A channel at the eaves of a roof for conveying away the rain; an eaves channel; an eaves trough. 2. A small channel at the roadside or elsewhere, to lead off surface water. Gutters running with ale. Macaulay. 3. Any narrow channel or groove;
• YIELD
  pay, give, restore, make an offering; akin to OFries. jelda, OS. geldan, D. gelden to cost, to be worth, G. gelten, OHG. geltan to pay, restore, make an offering, be worth, Icel. gjalda to pay, give up, Dan. gielde to be worth, Sw. gälla to be