free

• (r) without restraint
  • cows in India are running loose
  loose,
• (a) able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint
  • free enterprise
  • a free port
  • a free country
  • I have an hour free
  • free will
  • free of racism
  • feel free to stay as long as you wish
  • a free choice
• (a) unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion
  • free expansion
  • free oxygen
  • a free electron
• (s) costing nothing
  • complimentary tickets
  • free admission
  costless, gratis, complimentary, gratuitous,
• (s) not occupied or in use
  • a free locker
  • a free lane
• (s) not fixed in position
  • the detached shutter fell on him
  • he pulled his arm free and ran
  detached,
• (a) not held in servitude
  • after the Civil War he was a free man
• (s) not taken up by scheduled activities
  • a free hour between classes
  • spare time on my hands
  spare,
• (s) completely wanting or lacking
  • writing barren of insight
  • young recruits destitute of experience
  • innocent of literary merit
  • the sentence was devoid of meaning
  devoid, destitute, barren, innocent,
• (s) not literal
  • a loose interpretation of what she had been told
  • a free translation of the poem
  liberal, loose,

Nouns

• (n) people who are free
  • the home of the free and the brave
  free people,

Verbs

• (v) grant freedom to; free from confinement loose, unloose, unloosen, liberate, release,
• (v) relieve from
  • Rid the house of pests
  disembarrass, rid,
• (v) remove or force out from a position
  • The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums
  • He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble
  dislodge,
• (v) grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to
  • She exempted me from the exam
  exempt, relieve,
• (v) make (information) available for publication
  • release the list with the names of the prisoners
  release,
• (v) free from obligations or duties discharge,
• (v) free or remove obstruction from
  • free a path across the cluttered floor
  disengage,
• (v) let off the hook
  • I absolve you from this responsibility
  absolve, justify,
• (v) part with a possession or right
  • I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest
  • resign a claim to the throne
  relinquish, resign, give up, release,
• (v) release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition liberate, release,
• (v) make (assets) available
  • release the holdings in the dictator's bank account
  unfreeze, unblock, release,

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