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free from obligations or duties not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane" unoccupied not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man" emancipated, freeborn, free-soil 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" at large(p), at liberty(p), autonomous, available, aweigh, clear(p), discharged, disentangled, emancipated, loose, out-of-school, unconfined, unhampered, unrestricted, footloose unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron" liberated, unbound not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem" inexact people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave" make (information) available publication; "release the list with the names of the prisoners" grant freedom to; free from confinement free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor" relieve from; "Rid the the house of pests" not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands" unoccupied 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" not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran" unfixed without restraint; "cows in India are running loose" grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam" costing nothing; "complimentary tickets" unpaid let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility" make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator''s bank account" part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne" |
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