[lib.er.ate] vt -at.ed ; -at.ing [L liberatus, pp. of liberare, fr. liber] (ca. 1623) 1: to set at liberty: free; specif: to free (as a country) from domination by a foreign power
2: to free from combination "~ the gas by adding acid"
3: to take or take over illegally or unjustly "material liberated from a nearby construction site --Thorne Dreyer" syn see free -- lib.er.a.tor n