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Definition of liberate : To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

Synonyms:

eject, let go, justify, resign, exhaust, disembarrass, publish, spring, rid, relax, turn, separate, issue, put out, expel, let go of, unloosen, relinquish, unloose, give up, unfreeze, bring out, secrete, loose, extract, sublimate, purify, dislodge, unblock, analyze, loosen, manumit

exonerate, forgive, absolve, clear, exculpate, acquit, excuse, dismiss, defray, pardon, discharge, release, vindicate, free

ease, disencumber, unfetter, unbind, unchain, unleash, disentangle, disentwine, untie

disengage, let loose, set free, emancipate, deliver

license, dispel, relieve, permit, privilege, reprieve, except, exempt, stay

Usage examples:

• This unfortunately lacked a lid; to procure which I was obliged, in the first place, to liberate a carpenter who had been imprisoned for a small debt; secondly, to advance money for the purchase of a board and the redemption of his tools out of pawn; and even then the work, when it was begun, was several times broken off because previous claims of violent creditors had to be discharged by labor. - "The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes", Tomás de Comyn Fedor Jagor Rudolf Ludwig Carl Virchow Charles Wilkes.
• Hoggs, who had once before held the office he was now striving for, it was asserted, had solemnly promised to pardon all the murderers, liberate all the burglars, reward all the assassins, and present all the shoulder hitters with an official certificate of good moral character, which should also testify to their valuable and highly commendable exertions in the public behalf. - "Doesticks, What He Says", Q. K. Philander Doesticks.
• Other men, it seemed, had been free to liberate their souls! - "The Testing of Diana Mallory", Mrs. Humphry Ward.