SET FREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does set free mean? 

• SET FREE (verb)
  The verb SET FREE has 1 sense:

1. grant freedom to

  Familiarity information: SET FREE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SET FREE (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Grant freedom to

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

liberate; set free

Context example:

The students liberated their slaves upon graduating from the university

Hypernyms (to "set free" is one way to...):

discharge; free (free from obligations or duties)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "set free"):

affranchise; enfranchise (grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude)

emancipate; manumit (free from slavery or servitude)

decolonise; decolonize (grant independence to (a former colony))

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

 Context examples 

I had not despaired, nor had I yet conceived the idea of returning if set free.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“Then he must be constantly set free again, and taken out of execution,” said my aunt.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

As they were now set free, Roland said: Now I will go to my father and arrange for the wedding.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I know, and you know, that were I once dead you could and would set free my immortal spirit, even as you did my poor Lucy's.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

"She has held all the Munchkins in bondage for many years, making them slave for her night and day. Now they are all set free, and are grateful to you for the favor."

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

However, he was at length persuaded to comply; but prevailed that the articles and conditions upon which I should be set free, and to which I must swear, should be drawn up by himself.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

In the bottle the acids were long ago resolved; the imperial dye had softened with time, as the colour grows richer in stained windows; and the glow of hot autumn afternoons on hillside vineyards, was ready to be set free and to disperse the fogs of London.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

“Alas!” said she to herself, “was I not once set free? Why then does this enchantment still seem to bind me?”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

I shall drive there in my carriage at two o’clock in the afternoon for three successive days; the first day it will be drawn by four white, the second by four chestnut, and the last by four black horses; but if you fail to keep awake and I find you sleeping, I shall not be set free.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)