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freeing

SayFREE-ing/ˈfɹiɪŋ/

Noun pluralfreeings

3 meanings of freeing

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  1. 1
    verb
    Present participle and gerund of free. Use this form for setting something or someone loose right now.

    The rescuers are freeing the trapped animals from the net.

    Freeing the stuck door took them all morning.

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  2. 2
    adjective
    Making a person feel free, or giving them a sense of freedom.

    Like dropping a heavy backpack you have carried all day.

    Taking off her shoes after a long day felt freeing.

    The long walk across the open fields was strangely freeing.

    Similarliberating

    Oppositeconfining, restrictive, stifling

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  3. 3
    nouncountable or uncountable
    The act of setting something or someone free.

    The freeing of the trapped whale drew a huge crowd to the beach.

    Everyone cheered the freeing of the captured birds.

    Similarliberation, release, emancipation, rescue, deliverance

    Oppositeimprisonment, capture, confinement, enslavement

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freeing is a form of free

free, verb: To get someone or something out of what holds, traps or controls them, or weighs them down. Full entry

Forms
freefrees he/she/itfreeing -ing formfreed past tense, past participle
Spelling
free → freeing: add -ing

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