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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set free |
| Synonyms: | citizenize, emancipate, empower, free, give rights to, grant citizenship to, liberate, manumit, naturalize, release |
| Antonyms: | enslave |
| Main Entry: | exempt |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | relieve, absolve |
| Synonyms: | clear, discharge, dispense, except, excuse, exonerate, free, go easy on, grant immunity, let off the hook, let off, liberate, pass by, privilege from, release, spare, wipe the slate, write off |
| Antonyms: | blame |
| Main Entry: | exonerate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | excuse, clear of responsibility or blame |
| Synonyms: | absolve, acquit, disburden, discharge, dismiss, except, exculpate, exempt, free, justify, let off hook, let off, liberate, pardon, release, relieve, sanitize, vindicate, whitewash, wipe slate clean |
| Notes: | to exculpate is 'to free from accusation or blame' while exonerate is literally 'to free from a burden' |
| Antonyms: | accuse, blame, charge, condemn, incarcerate, incriminate, sentence |
| Main Entry: | extricate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | get out of a situation; relieve of responsibility |
| Synonyms: | bail out, clear, deliver, detach, difference, differentiate, disburden, discumber, disembarrass, disencumber, disengage, disentangle, disinvolve, extract, free, get off the hook, get out from under, let go, let off, liberate, loose, loosen, pull out, release, remove, rescue, resolve, save one's neck, separate, sever, untie, withdraw, wriggle out of |
| Antonyms: | entangle, involve |
| Main Entry: | loose/loosen |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set free; unbind |
| Synonyms: | alleviate, become unfastened, break up, deliver, detach, discharge, disconnect, disengage, disenthrall, disjoin, ease, ease off, emancipate, extricate, free, let go, let out, liberate, manumit, mitigate, relax, release, separate, slacken, unbar, unbolt, unbuckle, unbutton, unchain, unclasp, undo, unfasten, unfix, unhitch, unhook, unlace, unlash, unlatch, unleash, unlock, unloose, unpin, unscrew, unsnap, unstick, unstrap, untie, untighten, work free, work loose |
| Antonyms: | bind, limit, restrict, tighten |
| Main Entry: | loot |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal goods |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, boost, burglarize, despoil, grab, gut, liberate, lift, loft, make, moonlight requisition, pillage, plunder, raid, ransack, ravage, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, snitch, stick up, swipe, take, thieve, tip over |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
| Main Entry: | pardon |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | forgive |
| Synonyms: | absolve, accept, acquit, amnesty, blink at, bury the hatchet, clear, condone, discharge, exculpate, excuse, exonerate, free, give absolution, grant amnesty, justify, let off easy, let off, liberate, lifeboat, overlook, release, remit, reprieve, rescue, spring*, suspend charges, tolerate, wink at, wipe slate clean, write off |
| Notes: | a pardon is the act of excusing a mistake or offense; an excuse is an explanation offered to justify or obtain forgiveness |
| Antonyms: | chastise, condemn, damn, ostracize, penalize, punish |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pilfer |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | steal, embezzle |
| Synonyms: | annex, appropriate, borrow, cop, crib*, filch, liberate*, lift*, moonlight, palm, pinch*, pluck, purloin, requisition, rip off, rob, scrounge, snare, snatch, swipe, take, thieve, walk off with |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plunder |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | ravage, steal |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, burn, depredate, despoil, devastate, fleece, forage, foray, grab, gut, kip, knock off, knock over, lay waste, liberate, lift, loft, loot, maraud, moonlight requisition, pillage, prey, prowl, raid, ransack, relieve, requisition, rifle, rip off, rob, sack, salvage, smash and grab, snatch, spoil, stick up, strip |
| Antonyms: | give, receive |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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