Definitions for liberates

liberates lib·er·ate

Spelling: [lib-uh-reyt]
IPA: /ˈlɪb əˌreɪt/

Liberates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 775 anagrams from letters in liberates (abeeilrst).

Definitions for liberates

verb (used with object)

  1. to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
  2. to free (a nation or area) from control by a foreign or oppressive government.
  3. to free (a group or individual) from social or economic constraints or discrimination, especially arising from traditional role expectations or bias.
  4. to disengage; set free from combination, as a gas.
  5. Slang. to steal or take over illegally:

Origin of liberates

1615-25; Latin līberātus (past participle of līberāre to free), equivalent to līberā- verb stem + -tus past participle suffix. See liberal, Examples for liberates

During the conflict to liberate Kuwait, Egypt contributed the fourth-largest contingent of troops to the international coalition.

I want to liberate Englishmen so far as I can from the tyranny of Shakespeare's greatness.

I would enslave them even more and liberate men so they would start behaving like men again.

In 1808 a corps of 10,000 men destined to liberate Portugal was placed under his charge.

As it was, he attempted to liberate a people which did not feel its slavery.

They participated in the struggle to liberate India in language borrowed from or revitalized by their rulers.

liberate their conscience from the materialism by which it is weighed down.

As much as the reality of death frightens, it can also liberate.

You wish me to liberate David Rossi and leave you to deal with him?

And we will liberate Chechnya and the entire Caucasus, God willing.

Word Value for liberates
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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