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free   (TTS Sound)

The noun free has 1 sense

• free, free people -- (people who are free; "the home of the free and the brave")

The verb free has 11 senses

• free, liberate, release, unloose, unloosen, loose -- (grant freedom to; free from confinement)


• rid, free, disembarrass -- (relieve from; "Rid the house of pests")


• dislodge, free -- (remove or force out from a position; "The dentist dislodged the piece of food that had been stuck under my gums"; "He finally could free the legs of the earthquake victim who was buried in the rubble")


• exempt, relieve, free -- (grant relief or an exemption from a rule or requirement to; "She exempted me from the exam")


• free, release -- (make (information) available for publication; "release the list with the names of the prisoners")


• free, discharge -- (free from obligations or duties)


• free, disengage -- (free or remove obstruction from; "free a path across the cluttered floor")


• absolve, justify, free -- (let off the hook; "I absolve you from this responsibility")


• release, relinquish, resign, free, give up -- (part with a possession or right; "I am relinquishing my bedroom to the long-term house guest"; "resign a claim to the throne")


• release, free, liberate -- (release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition)


• unblock, unfreeze, free, release -- (make (assets) available; "release the holdings in the dictator's bank account")

The adj free has 9 senses

• free -- (able to act at will; not hampered; not under compulsion or restraint; "free enterprise"; "a free port"; "a free country"; "I have an hour free"; "free will"; "free of racism"; "feel free to stay as long as you wish"; "a free choice")


• free -- (unconstrained or not chemically bound in a molecule or not fixed and capable of relatively unrestricted motion; "free expansion"; "free oxygen"; "a free electron")


• complimentary, costless, free, gratis, gratuitous -- (costing nothing; "complimentary tickets"; "free admission")


• free -- (not occupied or in use; "a free locker"; "a free lane")


• detached, free -- (not fixed in position; "the detached shutter fell on him"; "he pulled his arm free and ran")


• free -- (not held in servitude; "after the Civil War he was a free man")


• spare, free -- (not taken up by scheduled activities; "a free hour between classes"; "spare time on my hands")


• barren, destitute, devoid, free, innocent -- (completely wanting or lacking; "writing barren of insight"; "young recruits destitute of experience"; "innocent of literary merit"; "the sentence was devoid of meaning")


• free, loose, liberal -- (not literal; "a loose interpretation of what she had been told"; "a free translation of the poem")

The adv free has 1 sense

• loose, free -- (without restraint; "cows in India are running loose")