0 past simple and past participle of free --
1 to allow someone to leave a prison or place where they have been kept: --
2 to move or make loose someone or something that is caught or held somewhere: --
3 to remove the limits or controls on someone or something: --
Her retirement from politics will free her (= provide her with enough time) to write her memoirs.
4 to make something available for someone to use: --
This power is achieved gradually by strengthening the facilities for partial use through repeated experiences so that attention is freed from the mechanics of use.
Pressured by the demonstration, the judge freed all the workers and jailed the factory administrator.
The ship was eventually freed but it was damaged.
The introduction of the frame divorced the structure from the load-bearing function of the wall, and freed the two elements.
Once freed, they all fled the city in droves.
Thus freed, they are able to focus on the larger structure and sense of the discourse, or nuances of wording or sound.
Stacks and other structures used by the tasks are also allocated and freed in the same manner.
But where and on what scale irrigation, fertilisers, and herbicides would be allocated for food production on newly freed up cane land remained obscure.
