noun
people who are free
Synonyms
free people
Examples
- the home of the free and the brave
verb
grant freedom to
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- free from confinement
verb
relieve from
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Examples
- Rid the house of pests
verb
remove or force out from a position
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Examples
- The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums
- He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble
verb
grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
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Examples
- She exempted me from the exam
verb
make (information) available for publication
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Examples
- release the list with the names of the prisoners
verb
free from obligations or duties
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verb
free or remove obstruction from
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Examples
- free a path across the cluttered floor
verb
let off the hook
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- I absolve you from this responsibility
verb
part with a possession or right
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- I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest
- resign a claim to the throne
verb
release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
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verb
make (assets) available
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Examples
- release the holdings in the dictator's bank account
adjective
not limited or hampered
Examples
- not under compulsion or restraint
- free enterprise
- a free port
- a free country
- I have an hour free
- free will
- free of racism
- feel free to stay as long as you wish
- a free choice
adjective
unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
Examples
- free expansion
- free oxygen
- a free electron
adjective
costing nothing
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- complimentary tickets
- free admission
adjective
not occupied or in use
Examples
- a free locker
- a free lane
adjective
not fixed in position
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- the detached shutter fell on him
- he pulled his arm free and ran
adjective
not held in servitude
Examples
- after the Civil War he was a free man
adjective
not taken up by scheduled activities
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- a free hour between classes
- spare time on my hands
adjective
completely wanting or lacking
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- writing barren of insight
- young recruits destitute of experience
- innocent of literary merit
- the sentence was devoid of meaning
adjective
not literal
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- a loose interpretation of what she had been told
- a free translation of the poem
adverb
without restraint
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Examples
- cows in India are running loose