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1. Give equal rights to; of women and minorities
   - emancipate
    
2. Grant freedom to; free from confinement
   - free, release, unloose, unloosen, loose
    
3. Grant freedom to
   "The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university";
   - set free
    
4. (chemistry) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition
   - release, free

Derived forms: liberates, liberated, liberating

Type of: bring forth, change state, discharge, free, generate, turn

Encyclopedia: Liberate