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liberation - 14 thesaurus results
| 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: | 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: | dismissal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | release |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, banishment, bounce, cold shoulder*, deportation, deposition, discharge, dissolution, door*, end, eviction, exile, exorcism, expulsion, freedom, freeing, layoff, liberation, marching orders*, notice, ostracism, ouster, permission, pink slip*, removal, suspension, brush-off, congé, deposal, dislodgment, displacement, dispossession, expatriation, housecleaning, kiss-off, old heave-ho, relegation |
| Antonyms: | acceptance, appointment, employment, retention, welcome, hiring, maintainance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | liberty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | authorization, autonomy, birthright, carte blanche, choice, convenience, decision, deliverance, delivery, dispensation, emancipation, enlightenment, exemption, franchise, free speech, immunity, independence, leave, leisure, liberation, license, opportunity, permission, prerogative, privilege, relaxation, release, rest, right, sanction, sovereignty, suffrage, autarchy, enfranchisement, power of choice, self-determination, self-government, unconstraint |
| Antonyms: | arrest, imprisonment, incarceration, restraint |
| 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: | 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: | riddance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | release |
| Synonyms: | discharge, ejection, elimination, liberation, removal |
| Main Entry: | discharge |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | setting free |
| Synonyms: | acquittal, clearance, exoneration, liberation, pardon, parole, probation, release, disimprisonment, remittance |
| Antonyms: | hold, imprisonment, incarceration, keep, retention |
| 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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