Meaning & use
Freed
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Released from confinement, restriction, obligation, or control.
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The hostages were freed after three tense days of negotiation.
Paying off the loan finally freed her from years of monthly payments.
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"Freed" is the past tense of "free," a verb rooted in Old English "freon," which originally meant "to love" before evolving toward the modern sense of liberation.
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