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Deliverance - 17 thesaurus results
Main Entry: deliverance
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: liberation
Synonyms: acquittal, delivery, emancipation, freeing, redemption, release, rescue, salvation, saving, extrication
Concept Thesaurus
Synonyms:
-nouns
deliverance, extrication, rescue; reprieve, reprieval; respite; liberation [more]; emancipation; redemption, salvation; riddance; gaol delivery; redeemableness.
-verbs
deliver, extricate, rescue, save, emancipate, redeem, ransom; bring off, bring through; tirer d'affaire, get the wheel out of the rut, snatch from the jaws of death, come to the rescue; rid; retrieve (restore) [more]; be rid of, get rid of.
-adjectives
saved, extricable, redeemable, rescuable.
Main Entry: acquittal
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: declaration removing blame
Synonyms: absolution, amnesty, clearance, deliverance, discharge, dismissal, exemption, exoneration, freeing, liberation, pardon, release, reprieve, vindication, acquitting, discharging, dismissing, exculpation, letting off, releasing, relief from
Antonyms: blame, censure, conviction, denunciation, doom, sentence
Main Entry: emancipation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: freedom
Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, independence, liberation, liberty, release, enfranchisement, setting free
Main Entry: escape
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: breaking away; getaway
Synonyms: avoidance, beat, bolt, break, deliverance, departure, desertion, disappearance, evasion, evasiveness, flight, freedom, leave, liberation, out, outbreak, powder, release, rescue, retreat, slip, spring, withdrawal, AWOL, abdication, breakout, bypassing, circumvention, decampment, dodging, ducking, elopement, elusion, elusiveness, eschewal, extrication, fadeout, hegira, lam, runaround, shunning, sidestepping
Antonyms: capture, maintenance, stay
Main Entry: liberation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: freedom
Synonyms: abolition, deliverance, democracy, emancipation, freeing, liberty, release, salvation, sovereignty, setting free, unchaining, unshackling
Main Entry: ransom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: blackmail money paid for return of possession or person
Synonyms: bribe, compensation, deliverance, payment, payoff, price, redemption, release, rescue, expiation, liberation money
Main Entry: relief
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: remedy, aid; relaxation
Synonyms: abatement, allayment, alleviation, amelioration, appeasement, assistance, assuagement, balm, break, breather, cheer, comfort, comforting, consolation, contentment, cure, deliverance, diversion, ease, easement, extrication, fix, hand, happiness, help, letup, lift, lightening, load off one's mind, maintenance, mitigation, mollification, palliative, quick fix*, refreshment, release, remission, reprieve, respite, rest, restfulness, satisfaction, softening, solace, succor, support, sustenance
Notes: relief (standing out) and intaglio (sunken) are opposites in art
Antonyms: damage, hurt, injury, pain
Main Entry: rescue
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: saving from danger
Synonyms: deliverance, delivery, emancipation, exploit, feat, heroism, liberation, performance, ransom, reclamation, recovering, recovery, redemption, release, relief, salvage, salvation, saving, disembarrassment, disentanglement, extrication, heroics, reclaiming
Antonyms: danger, peril
Main Entry: respite
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: pause, suspension in activity
Synonyms: acquittal, adjournment, break, breath*, breather*, breathing space*, cessation, coffee break, deadlock, deferment, delay, deliverance, discharge, downtime*, ease, five*, forgiveness, halt, hiatus, immunity, intermission, interruption, interval, layoff, leisure, letup*, lull, moratorium, pardon, postponement, recess, relaxation, release, relief, reprieve, rest, stay, stop, ten*, time, truce, exculpation, interregnum, protraction, time out
Antonyms: continuation
Main Entry: salvation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: rescue, saving
Synonyms: conservation, deliverance, emancipation, escape, exemption, keeping, liberation, lifeline, pardon, preservation, redemption, release, reprieve, restoration, safekeeping, conservancy, extrication, preserval, sustentation
Antonyms: harm, hurt, injury, loss, waste, endangerment
Main Entry: freeing
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: emancipation
Synonyms: clearing, deliverance, delivery, liberation, manumission, reprieve, restoration, salvation, saving, discharging, disentangling, extrication, granting freedom, loosening, loosing, pardoning, releasing, rescuing, setting free, unbinding, unchaining, unfettering, unlocking, untying
Main Entry: release
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: delivery; dispensation
Synonyms: absolution, acquittal, charge, clemency, commute, deliverance, discharge, emancipation, exemption, exoneration, freedom, freeing, liberation, liberty, manumission, relief, spring, turnout, acquittance, floater, let-off, lifeboat, lifesaver, walkout
Antonyms: check, collection, gathering, hold
Main Entry: freedom
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: political independence
Synonyms: abolition, autonomy, deliverance, delivery, democracy, discharge, emancipation, exemption, franchise, home rule, immunity, impunity, liberation, liberty, manumission, parole, prerogative, privilege, probation, redemption, release, relief, rescue, salvage, salvation, sovereignty, abolitionism, autarchy, citizenship, disengagement, disimprisonment, enfranchisement, extriction, representative government, self-determination, self-government
Antonyms: communism, government, subordination, suppression, subjection
Main Entry: delivery
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: giving of freedom
Synonyms: deliverance, emancipation, escape, freeing, liberation, pardon, release, rescue, salvage, salvation
Antonyms: capture, confinement, imprisonment, restraint
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