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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Free \Free\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Freed}; p. pr & vb n.
{Freeing}.] [OE. freen, freoien AS fre['o]gan. See {Free},
a.]
1. To make free to set at liberty; to rid of that which
confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to
release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from and
sometimes by off as to free a captive or a slave; to be
freed of these inconveniences. --Clarendon.
Our land is from the rage of tigers freed. --Dryden.
Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke.
--Milton.
2. To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve
from the constraint of
This master key Frees every lock, and leads us to
his person. --Dryden.
3. To frank. [Obs.] --Johnson.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
freeing
adj : tending to set free [syn: {emancipating}, {emancipative}, {liberating}]
n : liberation from any onerous controlling influence [syn: {emancipation}]
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