liberate

 
Pronunciation: /ˈlɪbəreɪt/

verb

[with object]
  • 1set (someone) free from imprisonment, slavery, or oppression: the serfs had been liberated
  • free (a place or people) from enemy occupation: twelve months earlier Paris had been liberated
  • release (someone) from a situation which limits freedom of thought or behaviour: she is liberated from the constraints of an unhappy marriage (as adjective liberating) the arts can have a liberating effect on people
  • free (someone) from social conventions, especially those concerned with accepted sexual roles: ways of working politically that liberate women
  • 2 Chemistry & Physics release (gas, energy, etc.) as a result of chemical reaction or physical decomposition: the energy liberated by the annihilation of matter is huge
  • 3 informal steal (something): the drummer’s wearing a beret he’s liberated from Lord knows where

Origin:

late 16th century: from Latin liberat- 'freed', from the verb liberare, from liber 'free'