liberate
verb (used with object)
to set free, as from imprisonment or bondage.
were liberating
-
past progressiveof liberate.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
With “facilitated communication,” parents were convinced they were liberating the trapped thoughts of their autistic children through a keyboard, unaware they were manipulating their children’s hands.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2025
Environmentally conscious bat mitzvahs are on the rise, including rustic ones at summer camps, and Strauss thinks pandemic-necessitated Zoom bat mitzvahs, which were liberating to many, will endure.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2022
Dinah Spritzer, an American in Prague who writes about gender issues and is the mother of twin boys, said policies like John Lewis’s were liberating for both children and their parents.
From New York Times ● Sep. 4, 2017
“Urbanization and capitalism were liberating people from the constraints of an agricultural cycle and making larger quantities of goods available for more extended periods of time,” Nissenbaum observes.
From Salon ● Dec. 24, 2013
Those two brothers, who came from a Welsh mining valley, thought they were liberating the holy city.
From Time Magazine Archive
