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English
Verb
set free (third-person singular simple present sets free, present participle setting free, simple past and past participle set free)
- (transitive) To release, to free, to give freedom to.
1921, Margaret Pedler, chapter 36, in The Moon Out Of Reach:"Well, you can tell Nan that she won't marry Peter Mallory with my consent. I'll never set her free to be another man's wife."
Synonyms
Translations
release, free, give freedom to
- Arabic: حَرَّرَ (ar) (ḥarrara)
- Belarusian: вызваля́ць impf (vyzvaljácʹ), вы́зваліць pf (výzvalicʹ), адпуска́ць impf (adpuskácʹ), адпусці́ць pf (adpuscícʹ)
- Bulgarian: освобожда́вам (bg) impf (osvoboždávam), освободя́ pf (osvobodjá)
- Catalan: alliberar (ca), lliurar (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 解放 (zh) (jiěfàng), 釋放／释放 (zh) (shìfàng)
- Dutch: vrijmaken (nl), bevrijden (nl)
- Esperanto: liberigi
- Finnish: vapauttaa (fi)
- French: libérer (fr), rendre libre, affranchir (fr)
- German: freisetzen (de), freilassen (de), befreien (de)
- Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (galausjan)
- Greek:
- Ancient: λύω (lúō)
- Hungarian: felszabadít (hu), kiszabadít (hu), elenged (hu), szabadon enged (hu)
- Italian: liberare (it)
- Japanese: 逃す (ja) (のがす, nogasu), 釈放する (ja) (しゃくほうする, shakuhō suru)
- Korean: 석방하다 (ko) (seokbanghada), 풀어주다 (pureojuda)
- Latin: līberō
- Lombard: liberar
- Malagasy: manafaka (mg)
- Malay: please add this translation if you can
- Malayalam: സ്വതന്ത്രമാക്കുക (svatantramākkuka)
- Maore Comorian: uɓulia
- Marathi: सोडवणे (soḍavṇe)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: тавих (mn) (tavix)
- Occitan: liurar (oc), liberar (oc)
- Polish: uwalniać (pl) impf, uwolnić (pl) pf
- Portuguese: libertar (pt)
- Russian: освобожда́ть (ru) impf (osvoboždátʹ), освободи́ть (ru) pf (osvobodítʹ), отпуска́ть (ru) impf (otpuskátʹ), отпусти́ть (ru) pf (otpustítʹ)
- Sanskrit: मुञ्चति (sa) (muñcati)
- Spanish: libertar (es)
- Swahili: kuweka huru
- Ukrainian: звільня́ти impf (zvilʹnjáty), звільни́ти pf (zvilʹnýty), відпуска́ти impf (vidpuskáty), відпусти́ти pf (vidpustýty)
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