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Adjective free has 8 senses
- free - 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"
Antonyms: unfree, adscript, adscripted, apprenticed, articled, bound, indentured, at bay, cornered, trapped, treed, captive, confined, imprisoned, jailed, entangled, serflike, nonautonomous, nonsovereign, prisonlike
- free - unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron"
Antonyms: bound, conjugate, conjugated
- complimentary, costless, free, gratis, gratuitous - costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"
Antonym: paid (indirect, via unpaid)
- free - not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane"
Antonym: occupied (indirect, via unoccupied)
- detached, free - not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran"
Antonym: fixed (indirect, via unfixed)
- free - not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man"
Antonyms: slave, bond, enslaved, enthralled, in bondage, slaveholding, servile
- spare, free - not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands"
Antonym: occupied (indirect, via unoccupied)
- free, loose, liberal - not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem"
Antonym: exact (indirect, via inexact)
Adverbial free has 1 sense
- loose, free - without restraint; "cows in India are running loose"
Noun free has 1 sense
- free, free people - people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave"
--1 is a kind of people
Verb free has 10 senses
- free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose - grant freedom to; free from confinement
Antonyms: confine, detain
Sample sentence:
They want to free the prisoners
- rid, free, disembarrass - relieve from; "Rid the the house of pests"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody of something
- dislodge, free - 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"
--3 is one way to remove, take, take away, withdraw
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something PP
- exempt, relieve, free - grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam"
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody PP
- free, release - make (information) available publication; "release the list with the names of the prisoners"
--5 is one way to issue, supply
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- free, discharge - free from obligations or duties
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
- free, disengage - free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor"
Antonyms: obstruct, obturate, impede, occlude, jam, block, close up
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something
- absolve, justify, free - let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility"
--8 is one way to forgive
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s somebody of something
- release, relinquish, resign, free, give up - part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne"
--9 is one way to pass, hand, reach, pass on, turn over, give
Sample sentences:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s something to somebody
- unblock, unfreeze, free, release - make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account"
--10 is one way to issue, supply
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Somebody ----s something
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