LIBERATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does liberated mean? 

• LIBERATED (adjective)
  The adjective LIBERATED has 2 senses:

1. (of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination

2. free from traditional social restraints

  Familiarity information: LIBERATED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIBERATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of a gas e.g.) released from chemical combination

Similar:

free (unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Free from traditional social restraints

Synonyms:

emancipated; liberated

Context example:

a liberated lifestyle

Similar:

free (not limited or hampered; not under compulsion or restraint)

 Context examples 

Upon hydrolysis of artesunate's active endoperoxide bridge moiety by liberated heme in parasite-infected red blood cells, reactive oxygen species and carbon-centered radicals form, which have been shown to damage and kill parasitic organisms.

(Artesunate, NCI Thesaurus)

“You have given orders that Arthur should be liberated, have you not, dad?” she asked.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When a stream of meteoroids rains down on the lunar surface, the liberated water will enter the exosphere and spread through it.

(Meteoroid Strikes Eject Precious Water From Moon, NASA)

Before many minutes had passed a pack of them poured, like a pent-up dam when liberated, through the wide entrance into the courtyard.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mimicking endogenous GSSG, glutathione disulfide NOV-002 acts as a competitive substrate for gamma-glutamyl-transpeptidase (GGT), which may result in the S-glutathionylation of proteins, predominantly actin, a redox stress on endoplasmic reticulum (ER), and ER stress-induced apoptosis; S-glutathionylation may be stimulated by reactive oxygen species (ROS) liberated by a glutathione disulfide NOV-002-induced increase in GGT activity.

(Glutathione Disulfide NOV-002, NCI Thesaurus)

The grand jury rejected the bill, on its being proved that I was on the Orkney Islands at the hour the body of my friend was found; and a fortnight after my removal I was liberated from prison.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It is also is used by nutritionists in measuring the energy-producing potential of food as a unit of potential energy contained by a substance, which can be liberated when the material is oxidized, usually by combustion in the presence of oxygen.

(Calorie, NCI Thesaurus)

Opening the window, I walked in upon them; liberated Celine from my protection; gave her notice to vacate her hotel; offered her a purse for immediate exigencies; disregarded screams, hysterics, prayers, protestations, convulsions; made an appointment with the vicomte for a meeting at the Bois de Boulogne.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)