8 letters · 10 points in Scrabble
verb give equal rights to; of women and minorities
verb grant freedom to; free from confinement
verb grant freedom to
originLearned borrowing from Latin līberātus (“freed, liberated; absolved, acquitted; released”); see English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and used as the ending of participial adjectives and obsolete past participles from Latin). Līberātus is the perfect passive participle of līberō (“to free, liberate; to absolve, acquit; to release”), from līber (“free, unrestricted”), + -ō (suffix forming regular…
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