setting free
Letting them go
Setting free is releasing from confinement, restraint, or bondage.
A judge sets a prisoner free.
You set a trapped animal free.
The phrase extends to abstract liberation: setting free one's imagination, setting emotions free.
The truth will set you free.
To set something free is to let it go where it will.
- emancipateGrant freedom to
- manumissionFormal freeing of enslaved
- uncageRelease from confinement
- turn looseFree from confinement
- exonerateClear of wrongdoing
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