liberating Definition

liberate
verb, tr & intr liberated, liberating

1. To set free.

Thesaurus: emancipate, free, release, discharge, let go, enfranchise, unchain, unfetter, rescue; Antonym: enslave.
2. To free (a country) from enemy occupation.
3. To free from accepted moral or social conventions or from traditional gender-based roles.
4. chem.
To give off (a gas).

Etymology: 17c: from Latin liberare to free.