Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to liberate
Participle: liberated
Gerund: liberating
Cognates
-
Indicative
Present
| I | liberate |
| you | liberate |
| he;she;it | liberates |
| we | liberate |
| you | liberate |
| they | liberate |
Perfect
| I | have liberated |
| you | have liberated |
| he;she;it | has liberated |
| we | have liberated |
| you | have liberated |
| they | have liberated |
Past
| I | liberated |
| you | liberated |
| he;she;it | liberated |
| we | liberated |
| you | liberated |
| they | liberated |
Pluperfect
| I | had liberated |
| you | had liberated |
| he;she;it | had liberated |
| we | had liberated |
| you | had liberated |
| they | had liberated |
Future
| I | will liberate |
| you | will liberate |
| he;she;it | will liberate |
| we | will liberate |
| you | will liberate |
| they | will liberate |
Future Perfect
| I | will have liberated |
| you | will have liberated |
| he;she;it | will have liberated |
| we | will have liberated |
| you | will have liberated |
| they | will have liberated |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | liberate |
| you | liberate |
| he;she;it | liberate |
| we | liberate |
| you | liberate |
| they | liberate |
Perfect
| I | have liberated |
| you | have liberated |
| he;she;it | have liberated |
| we | have liberated |
| you | have liberated |
| they | have liberated |
Imperfect
| I | liberated |
| you | liberated |
| he;she;it | liberated |
| we | liberated |
| you | liberated |
| they | liberated |
Pluperfect
| I | had liberated |
| you | had liberated |
| he;she;it | had liberated |
| we | had liberated |
| you | had liberated |
| they | had liberated |
Conditional
Present
| I | would liberate |
| you | would liberate |
| he;she;it | would liberate |
| we | would liberate |
| you | would liberate |
| they | would liberate |
Perfect
| I | would have liberated |
| you | would have liberated |
| he;she;it | would have liberated |
| we | would have liberated |
| you | would have liberated |
| they | would have liberated |
Imperative
| you | liberate |
| we | Let's liberate |
| you | liberate |
Verbs conjugated like 'liberate'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'liberate'
librate,
berate,
deliberate,
hibernate,
iterate,
lacerate,
libate,
reliberate,
siderate,
vibrate,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- to take something that does not belong to one
- abduct, abstract, appropriate, bag, bandit, bone, boost, borrow, burglarize, burgle, cheat, chore, convert, cop, cozen, crib, embezzle, filch, fleece, flog, gaffle, half-inch, heist, jack, kidnap, knock off, kype, kyper, lift, loot, make off with, mill, misappropriate, moonlight requisition, nick, own, peculate, pickpocket, pilfer, pillage, pinch, pirate, plunder, poach, pocket, prig, purloin, raid, ransack, rape, reave, rip, rip off, rob, run off with, snag, snatch, steal, swindle, swipe, thieve, walk off with
- to give freedom to; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses
- befree, deliver, disentangle, extricate, free, let go, let loose, loose, release, set free, turn loose, unleash
- free
- release, discharge, deliver, emancipate, loose, disengage, unfetter
Antonyms
- to make tighter
- divide, loosen, tighten
- to gain possession or control by force or stratagem
- let go, release, rescue, capture, unhand
- to give freedom to; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, or oppresses
- capture, confine, imprison, leash, restrain
- free
- bound, confine, bind, close
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1623, from L.
liberatus, pp. of
liberare "set free," from
liber "free" (see liberal). Meaning "to free an occupied territory from the enemy" (often used ironically) is from 1944.
Liberation is c.1440;
liberation theology (1969) translates Sp.
teologia de la liberación, coined 1968 by Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez.
2. Learned borrowing from Latin līberātus (“freed, liberated; absolved, acquitted; released”); see English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and used as the ending of participial adjectives and obsolete past participles from Latin). Līberātus is the perfect passive participle of līberō (“to free, liberate; to absolve, acquit; to release”), from līber (“free, unrestricted”), + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs); and līberō is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₁léwdʰeros (“free”), from *h₁lewdʰ- (“to grow; people”) + *-teros (contrastive or oppositional adjectival suffix) (*h₁léwdʰeros possibly originally meant ‘belonging to one’s own people’, excluding slaves who were captured from other groups of people, and thus later came to mean “free (not enslaved)”). Not related to deliberate.
Verbs referencing "liberate"
Spanish
liberar.
Sample Sentences
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[...] to Tom's trunk, which, previous to this, he had been ransacking, and, taking from it a pair of old pantaloons and dilapidated coat, which Tom had been wont to put on about his stable-work, he said, liberating Tom's hands from the handcuffs, and pointing to a recess in among the boxes,
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] a side of the subject which he never had heard,—never had thought on; and he immediately told the Quaker that, if his slave would, to his own face, say that it was his desire to be free, he would liberate him. An interview was forthwith procured, and Nathan was asked by his young master whether he had ever had any reason to complain of his treatment, in any respect.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)