freeing
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Pronunciation
Verb
freeing
- present participle and gerund of free
Noun
freeing (countable and uncountable, plural freeings)
- The act of making something free; liberation.
- 1991, Gayl Jones, Liberating Voices: Oral Tradition in African American Literature:
- However again, in these freeings of voices it should be observed that the African American Southern voice and character is framed within the freed European American Southern voice.
- 2024 February 7, Lee Waters tells Conrad Landin, “A mission to improve transport for Wales”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 35:
- The freeing of funding from a never-ending pipeline of expensive road schemes is going to happen over time, and will allow mult-modal schemes to be funded first.
Adjective
freeing (comparative more freeing, superlative most freeing)
- Making one free; causing someone to experience freedom.
- Synonym: liberating
- 2024 October 23, Jesse Hassenger, “Tom Hardy takes one more hit-and-miss spin with a symbiote in Venom: The Last Dance”, in AV Club:
- Reimagining a ’90s-style “cool” Marvel bad guy as a Universal Monster-style antihero is a great, potentially freeing idea for a superhero picture, providing the opportunity to connect otherwise disparate eras of comics and genre movies.
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