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set free

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set someone or something free (from something)
to release someone or something from something. The commando set the secret agent free from the prison. Who set the chickens free from their pens? At last, he set himself free from the inhibitions that held him back.
See also: free, set


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The Bat assured him that he was not a bird, but a mouse, and thus was set free.
Our author tells us in this book, as he has told us in others, more especially in The World Set Free, and as he has been telling us this year in his War and the Future, that if mankind goes on with war, the smash-up of civilization is inevitable.
I have done with our performances forever; and I wish to be set free from everything which might accidentally connect me with them in the future.
 
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