Phrase guide

make free of

verb · 1 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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verb

Meaning 1

To use something that belongs to another person (often with permission)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • 1967, Berechiah ben Natronai ha-Nakdan, Fables of a Jewish Aesop, translated by Moses Hadas, Jaffrey, NH: David R. Godine, 2001, p. 110 https://books.google.ca/books?id=s6EjsopJmp4C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false There she saw many mice making free of wheat and barley; six measures of barley they meted out to themselves to bring to their holes, until they had enough and to spare.

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