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Free v. t. (past & past part. freed; pres. part. freeing)

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. "Our land is from the rage of tigers freed." "Arise,... free thy people from their yoke."

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."

To frank. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Freeing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Freeing" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Marguerite, freeing my hand, and interpreting my words according to her own desire. "Let us go and see if it ...

— Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) • Alexandre Dumas, fils

... by Henry Clay before the American Colonization Society, 1827. Lincoln continued: "If as friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery, and at the same time in restoring a captive people to their long lost fatherland with bright prospects for the future, and this too so gradually that neither races ...

— The Journal of Negro History, Volume 4, 1919 • Various

... gave such a yank that he succeeded in freeing one arm. But De Royster was not going to give up so easily. He grabbed Wakely around ...

— The Boy from the Ranch - Or Roy Bradner's City Experiences • Frank V. Webster

... "As I am in no danger whatever of hanging, nothing you can say on that score affects me in the least. As for freeing me, you may do as you please—it makes no difference to me, one way or the other, as no jail can hold me for a day. I can say, however, that while I have made a fortune on this trip, so that I do not have to associate further with Steel unless it is to my interest to do so, I may nevertheless ...

— The Skylark of Space • Edward Elmer Smith and Lee Hawkins Garby

... you; but as my father said to me, 'You must not think, Edgar, that you can set yourself up and judge others according to your own ideas.' We were especially speaking then of the freeing of the serfs and the bettering of their condition. 'These things,' he said, 'will come assuredly when the general opinion is ripe for them, but those who first advocate changes are ever looked upon as dreamers, if not as seditious and dangerous persons, and to force on a thing before the ...

— A March on London • G. A. Henty

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