free someone from/of something

Examples of freed

freed

In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.

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Lovers were drunk with emotion, crowds acted in a drunken frenzy, and drink freed the tongue to talk.
If the sustainable catch is fixed, improved technical efficiency is a benefit only if resources are freed from the catching sector for productive use elsewhere.
Other measures freed prices, raised interest rates, and clarified property rights.
This freed women from the near impossible task of getting party backing for their candidacies.
The judge can exhibit similar candor if he instead believes that the procedural infraction freed a borderline case of a guilty man.
If this freed the church to model itself on the primitive pattern, it also freed the state from responsibility for religion.
But where and on what scale irrigation, fertilisers, and herbicides would be allocated for food production on newly freed up cane land remained obscure.
Stacks and other structures used by the tasks are also allocated and freed in the same manner.
Thus freed, they are able to focus on the larger structure and sense of the discourse, or nuances of wording or sound.
Once freed, they all fled the city in droves.
The introduction of the frame divorced the structure from the load-bearing function of the wall, and freed the two elements.
The ship was eventually freed but it was damaged.
Pressured by the demonstration, the judge freed all the workers and jailed the factory administrator.
This power is achieved gradually by strengthening the facilities for partial use through repeated experiences so that attention is freed from the mechanics of use.
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