free
/fɹi/ verb B2- To make free; set at liberty; release.
- To rid of something that confines or oppresses.
- To relinquish (previously allocated memory) to the system.
He/she/it frees · Past freed · Past participle freed · -ing form freeing
Verb forms
- Base form
- free
- He/she/it
- frees
- Past
- freed
- Past participle
- freed
- -ing form
- freeing
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
“By the Broken Lock that freed me, I am sure, Little Brother.”
Block upon block lying scattered and free,
“Come, my head’s free at last!” said Alice in a tone of delight, which changed into alarm in another moment, when she found that her shoulders were nowhere to be found: all she could see, when she looked down, was an immense length of neck, which seemed to rise like a stalk out of a sea of green leaves that lay far below her.
“And just as I’d taken the highest tree in the wood,” continued the Pigeon, raising its voice to a shriek, “and just as I was thinking I should be free of them at last, they must needs come wriggling down from the sky!
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