liberating

VERB

give freedom

Synonyms

STRONGEST

detach emancipate free redeem rescue save

STRONG

deliver discharge disembarrass loose loosen manumit release unbind unchain unhook

WEAK

bail one out free up get out from under let loose let out save one's neck set free unshackle

Antonyms

STRONGEST

harm hold hurt incarcerate

STRONG

detain imprison keep

WEAK

hold back limit prevent restrain

Example Sentences

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“We are fully sure that 2020 XL5 will remain librating around L4 for at least 3,500 more years,” Santana-Ros told Space.com.

From Scientific American • Feb. 2, 2022

But to borrow a term from astronomy, it is a librating mesothesis: for it may verge more to likeness as in painting, or more to difference, as in sculpture.

From Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Coleridge, Henry Nelson