free
adjective
enjoying personal rights or liberty, as a person who is not in slavery.
had freed
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past perfectof free.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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The UN maritime agency said an evacuation operation had freed 115 vessels and 2,500 seafarers trapped by the dispute before the attack forced its suspension.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
Two years before Mr. Musk had freed Twitter from bloat and mismanagement by cutting nearly four-fifths of employees and creating something that worked better.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
Receiving the guaranteed income had freed her from the suffocating sensation of constantly worrying about money.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 28, 2025
Its prison service said on Thursday that it had freed more Palestinians, hours after Hamas let eight more hostages go.
From BBC ● Nov. 30, 2023
She took the edge she had freed, gripped it hard between forefinger and thumb, and pulled the dressing back in a sudden stroke.
From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan
