liberation

liberation
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Setting free
Nouns
1. liberation, emancipation, enfranchisement, manumission, freeing; Emancipation Proclamation; escape, freedom, liberty; deliverance, extrication, release, riddance; rescue, ransom; redemption, salvation, saving, absolution (see acquittal); discharge, dismissal, demobilization. Informal, bail-out. Slang, kiss-off.
2. liberator, emancipator, freer, deliverer, rescuer; redeemer, savior.
Verbs
1. liberate, free [from bondage], set free, set at liberty, give one's freedom; disenthrall; emancipate, enfranchise, manumit; deliver, extricate, release, ransom, reclaim; snatch from the jaws of death; redeem, absolve, save; acquit. Slang, spring.
2. discharge, dismiss, disband, demobilize; parole; let go, turn, set, cut, or let loose, let out, let slip; turn or cast adrift; rid, shake off, be or get rid of; unfetter, untie, unleash, unloose[n], unlock, unbolt, unbar, uncork, unbind, unhand, unchain, unshackle; disengage, disentangle, disencumber; clear. Slang, sack.
3. gain one's liberty, go [scot-]free, get off or out, get clear or free of (see
Adjectives — liberated, freed, saved, etc.; free, out of harness, unfettered, at liberty, off the hook, at large; out of bondage, on parole, free as a bird; liberative, liberatory. Slang, saved by the bell.
Quotations — In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free (Abraham Lincoln), The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. He frees himself and shows the way to others. Freedom and slavery are mental states (Mahatma Gandhi), The God who gave us life, gave us liberty at the same time (Thomas Jefferson).
Antonyms, see restraint.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
1. [Emancipation]
Syn. rescue, freedom, deliverance; see freeing .
2. [Release; said of chemicals ]
Syn. freeing, separation, displacement, hydrolysis, diffusion, sublimation, distillation, breaking ionic bonding, breaking covalent bonding, evaporation, osmosis, breakdown of organic compounds, breakdown of inorganic compounds, splitting of molecular structure, dividing of molecular structure.
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
freedom, liberty, release, emancipation, unshackling, deliverance, manumission, salvation, extrication, rescue.
ANT.: enslavement, subjugation, imprisonment
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun The state of not being in confinement or servitude: emancipation, freedom, liberty, manumission. See FREE.

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