liberated
Britishadjective
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given liberty; freed; released
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released from occupation or subjugation by a foreign power
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(esp in feminist theory) not bound by traditional sexual and social roles
Explanation
Liberated describes something that's free from traditional social conventions. If you are a truly liberated dresser, you don't feel any pressure to wear conservative clothes just because that's what everyone else does. A liberated woman refers to a feminist who pushes for more equality for women. In the 1960s, a wave of liberated women fought sexism in culture and politics and tried to change expectations of what women should be both inside and outside the home. Liberated can also describe something that's freed from occupation by an enemy. For example, a country might be liberated from guerilla rule by UN forces.
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Example Sentences
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“He’s liberated from his own shyness when he’s trying to solve the puzzle,” Mitchell said recently over Zoom from London.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2026
The operation would continue, he said, “until the country is liberated from the control of terrorist militias.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2026
Eventually they were liberated by American troops and Hay returned to the UK, via Reims, on 4 May 1945.
From BBC ● Sep. 21, 2026
He had just published astonishing photographs taken amid the ruins of the old city, recently liberated from ISIS, that had been the epicenter of global jihadism.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 27, 2026
Through their conversations, I learn that Bat Deng, my uncles’ village in the Kompong Speu province was liberated by the Youns weeks before Pursat province.
From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung
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