Another word for free
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Adjective
Able to move about at will without bounds or restraint
Idioms:See also:Having political independence
Costing nothing
Idioms:See also:Not spoken for or occupied
See also:Speaking or spoken without reserve
See also:Characterized by bounteous giving
See also:Done by one's own choice
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Verb
To set at liberty
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Another word for free
Modifier
Not restricted politically
Not restricted in space; said of persons
Antonyms:Not restricted in space; said of things
Given without charge
Generous
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Verb
To set loose
Antonyms:To clear of obstruction or entanglement
Idioms:
for-free
give a free hand
make free with
set-free
with a free hand
Synonym Study
- Discharge implies a being permitted to leave that which confines or restrains discharged at last from the army
- Emancipate refers to a freeing from the bondage of slavery or of social institutions or conventions regarded as equivalent to slavery emancipated from medieval superstition
- Liberate emphasizes the state of liberty into which the freed person or thing is brought to liberate prisoners of war
- Release , more or less interchangeable with free , stresses a setting loose from confinement, literally or figuratively release me from my promise
- Free is the general term meaning to set loose from any sort of restraint, entanglement, burden, etc. to free a convict, one's conscience, etc.
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