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Freeing   /frˈiɪŋ/   Listen
Freeing

noun
1.
The act of liberating someone or something.  Synonyms: liberation, release.



Free

verb
(past & past part. freed; pres. part. freeing)
1.
Grant freedom to; free from confinement.  Synonyms: liberate, loose, release, unloose, unloosen.
2.
Relieve from.  Synonyms: disembarrass, rid.
3.
Remove or force out from a position.  Synonym: dislodge.  "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble"
4.
Grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to.  Synonyms: exempt, relieve.
5.
Make (information) available for publication.  Synonym: release.
6.
Free from obligations or duties.  Synonym: discharge.
7.
Free or remove obstruction from.  Synonym: disengage.
8.
Let off the hook.  Synonyms: absolve, justify.
9.
Part with a possession or right.  Synonyms: give up, release, relinquish, resign.  "Resign a claim to the throne"
10.
Release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition.  Synonyms: liberate, release.
11.
Make (assets) available.  Synonyms: release, unblock, unfreeze.



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"Freeing" Quotes from Famous Books



... indeed,' protested Malcolm, with a terrible wrench to his heart, yet a sensation of freeing his conscience. 'Fear me no longer now. After that which I saw at Vincennes, I know what it is to be on the straight path, and—oh! what it is to have fallen from it. How could I dream of dragging you down to be ...
— The Caged Lion • Charlotte M. Yonge

... close relation with a sacrifice.[374] In Greece the two were associated in the cults of Apollo and Dionysos and in ordinary worship in general.[375] Thus, men and gods take part in the process of freeing the worshiper from the impure elements of life: the man obeys the law of the ritual, and the god receives him into ...
— Introduction to the History of Religions - Handbooks on the History of Religions, Volume IV • Crawford Howell Toy

... honor of Nueva Granada imperatively requires the punishment of the daring invaders, their persecution to the last trenches. Her glory will be the undertaking of going to Venezuela, and freeing the birthplace of Colombian independence and its martyrs, and that worthy people of Caracas, whose clamors are addressed to their beloved fellow patriots of Nueva Granada, for whom they are waiting ...
— Simon Bolivar, the Liberator • Guillermo A. Sherwell

... write down the pity of that appeal, the hopelessness of it, the yearning in it. Freeing herself from the girl, Mrs. Temple took one step towards him, her arms held up. I had not thought that his hatred of her was deep enough to resist it. It was Antoinette whose intuition divined this ere he ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill

... the hand of Jason. They next touched at the country of the Bebrycians, where the hero Pollux overcame the king in a boxing-match and bound him to a tree; and thence to Salmydessus, to consult the soothsayer Phineus. In gratitude for their freeing him from the Harpies, who, as often as his table was set, descended out of the clouds upon his food and defiled it, the prophet directed them safe to Colchis. The heroes rowing with might, thus passed the Symplegades, two cliffs which opened and shut with such swift violence that a bird could ...
— Library Of The World's Best Literature, Ancient And Modern, Vol. 2 • Charles Dudley Warner


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