'Freeing' definitions:
Definition of 'freeing'
From: WordNet
noun
The act of liberating someone or something [syn: liberation, release, freeing]
Definition of 'Freeing'
From: GCIDE
- Free \Free\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Freed; p. pr. & vb. n. Freeing.] [OE. freen, freoien, AS. fre['o]gan. See Free, a.]
- 1. To make free; to set at liberty; to rid of that which confines, limits, embarrasses, oppresses, etc.; to release; to disengage; to clear; -- followed by from, and sometimes by off; as, to free a captive or a slave; to be freed of these inconveniences. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster]
- Our land is from the rage of tigers freed. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Arise, . . . free thy people from their yoke. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To remove, as something that confines or bars; to relieve from the constraint of. [1913 Webster]
- This master key Frees every lock, and leads us to his person. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To frank. [Obs.] --Johnson. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'freeing'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- affranchisement,
- break,
- breaking out,
- breakout,
- catharsis,
- cleansing,
- clearing,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- disburdening,
- discharge,
- disembarrassment,
- disembroilment,
- disencumbrance,
- disengagement,
- disentanglement,
- disenthrallment,
- disinvolvement,
- dislodgment,
- emancipation,
- Emancipation Proclamation,
- emergence,
- emotional release,
- enfranchisement,
- escape,
- escapism,
- evasion,
- extrication,
- flight,
- gay liberation,
- getaway,
- intermission,
- issuance,
- issue,
- jailbreak,
- leak,
- leakage,
- liberation,
- lifesaving,
- manumission,
- outlet,
- prisonbreak,
- purgation,
- purge,
- purging,
- ransom,
- recovery,
- redemption,
- release,
- releasing,
- removal,
- reprieve,
- rescue,
- respite,
- retrieval,
- riddance,
- salvage,
- salvation,
- saving,
- setting at liberty,
- setting-free,
- surcease,
- suspension,
- uncluttering,
- unhampering,
- unknotting,
- unraveling,
- unscrambling,
- unsnarling,
- untangling,
- vent
Words containing 'Freeing'
- Free,
- Free will,
- for free,
- Bilge free,
- Cost free,
- Free Soil,
- Free States,
- Free agency,
- Free and easy,
- Free base,
- Free bench,
- Free board,
- Free bond,
- Free chapel,
- Free charge,
- Free church,
- Free city,
- Free coinage,
- Free cost,
- Free goods,
- Free labor,
- Free lance,
- Free list,
- Free liver,
- Free love,
- Free lover,
- Free port,
- Free reed,
- Free school,
- Free services,
- Free ships,
- Free silver,
- Free socage,
- Free stuff,
- Free thought,
- Free town,
- Free trade,
- Free trader,
- To get free,
- To make free with,
- To sail free,
- To set free,
- dirt free,
- free agent,
- free and clear,
- free association,
- free burning,
- free choice,
- free cities,
- free electron,
- free energy,
- free enterprise,
- free fall,
- free form,
- free french,
- free grace,
- free hand,
- free house,
- free kick,
- free living,
- free lunch,
- free morpheme,
- free of charge,
- free pardon,
- free people,
- free phagocyte,
- free press,
- free radical,
- free rein,
- free spirit,
- free spoken,
- free state,
- free tenements,
- free throw,
- free time,
- free tontine,
- free verse,
- free weight,
- free world,
- free zone,
- free-for-all,
- free-will,
- scot free,
- set free,
- Fancy-free,
- Free Soil, MI,
- Free public house,
- Free-denizen,
- Free-hand,
- Free-handed,
- Free-hearted,
- Free-heartedly,
- Free-heartedness,
- Free-liver,
- Free-living,
- Free-love,
- Free-lover,
- Free-martin,
- Free-milling,
- Free-minded,
- Free-soil,
- Free-soilism,
- Free-spoken,
- Free-spokenness,
- Free-swimming,
- Free-tongued,
- Frost-free,
- Scot-free,
- Shot-free,
- calorie-free,
- cell-free,
- distribution free statistic,
- drug-free,
- duty-free,
- fat-free,
- free central placentation,
- free nerve ending,
- free soil party,
- free throw lane,
- free-and-easy,
- free-associate,
- free-base,
- free-burning,
- free-enterprise,
- free-flying,
- free-lance,
- free-lancer,
- free-range,
- free-reed,
- free-thinking,
- frenzy-free,
- ice-free,
- lead-free,
- orange free state,
- pain-free,
- penalty free throw,
- post-free,
- rent-free,
- risk-free,
- rural free delivery,
- rust-free,
- smoke-free,
- tax-free,
- tenure by free alms,
- toll-free,
- trouble-free,
- Free-borough men,
- Free-hand drawing,
- footloose and fancy-free,
- free-reed instrument,
- free-tailed bat,
- gluten-free diet,
- half-free morel,
- parenthesis-free notation,
- salt-free diet,
- north american free trade agreement,
- free-thinking latitudinarian undogmatic undogmatical,
- tax-exempt tax-free