free sb from/of sth
— phrasal verb with free uk/friː/us/friː/verb
to help or make life better for someone by taking something unpleasant away from them:
He dedicated his life to freeing the world from famine and disease.
I'd like to free myself of some of the responsibilities of this job.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing and getting rid of things
- abandon
- banish
- be scattered to the four winds idiom
- bin
- cast sb/sth aside/away/off
- flay
- fling sth/sb out
- flush sth out
- fly-tipping
- haemodialysis
- junk
- pension
- scrap
- shuffle
- throw the baby out with the bathwater idiom
- toss sth aside
- toss sth out
- turf sth out
- unplug
- weed
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