liberate
/ˈlɪbəreɪt/verb
with obj.(常作 be liberated)
1- set (someone) free from a situation, especially imprisonment or slavery, in which their liberty is severely restricted解放, 释放：
the serfs had been liberated.
农奴解放了。
1.1
- free (a country, city, or people) from enemy occupation解放（敌方占领和统治的国家、城市或人民）：
twelve months earlier Paris had been liberated.
巴黎在12个月前就已解放了。
1.2
- release (someone) from a state or situation which limits freedom of thought or behaviour解放（思想）, 使摆脱思想（或行为）上的束缚：
the use of computers can liberate pupils from the constraints of disabilities
使用电脑可以让小学生们摆脱残疾的束缚。
as adj. liberating the arts can have a liberating effect on people.艺术能解放人的思想。
1.3
- free (someone) from rigid social conventions, especially those concerned with accepted sexual roles（从刻板的社会习俗中）解放（尤指摆脱关于两性地位和作用的传统习俗或观念）：
ways of working politically that liberate women.
解放妇女的政治手段。
1.4
- informal steal (something)〈非正式〉偷：
the drummer's wearing a beret he's liberated from Lord knows where.
那个鼓手戴着一顶不知从哪里偷来的贝雷帽。
1.5
- Chemistry & Physics release (gas, energy, etc.) as a result of chemical reaction or physical decomposition【化, 物理】释放（气体、能量等）：
energy liberated by the annihilation of matter.
物质湮灭所释放出来的能量。
派生词
liberation
nounliberationist
nounliberator
noun词源
late 16th cent.: from Latin liberat '-freed'， from the verb liberare， from liber 'free'.