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What does liberate mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word liberate? Here's what it means.

Verb
  1. (transitive) To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly
    1. To release from slavery: to manumit.
    2. To release from servitude or unjust rule.
    3. To release from restraint or inhibition.
    4. (chemistry) To release from chemical bonds or solutions.
  2. (transitive, military, euphemistic) To acquire from an enemy during wartime, used especially of cities, regions, and other population centers.
  3. (transitive, euphemistic) To acquire from another by theft or force: to steal, to rob.
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No politician is talking about ideas or programs to liberate the people from the current economic retrogression and social decay.
Harvey's team suggests that organic carbon feeds chemical reactions that liberate arsenic from minerals in the soil.
In the end, unlike in Naples, Milan, Turin, Venice, Genoa and other cities, the Resistance did not liberate the capital city.
We are the ones who, upon closing in on a work of art, liberate the powers confined within.
They fought on foreign shores, flew through enemy skies and risked their lives to liberate the world.
Acids are typically corrosive, sour to the taste, turn litmus paper red, react with some metals to liberate hydrogen, and neutralize bases.

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