What's the difference between abscond and liberate?

Abscond


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To hide, withdraw, or be concealed.
  • (v. i.) To depart clandestinely; to steal off and secrete one's self; -- used especially of persons who withdraw to avoid a legal process; as, an absconding debtor.
  • (v. t.) To hide; to conceal.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Guzmán was sent to Altiplano high-security prison, 56 miles outside Mexico City, but in July 2015, he absconded again, squeezing through a hole in his shower floor then fleeing on a modified motorbike through a mile-long tunnel fitted with lights and a ventilation system.
  • (2) Eleanor Hawkins' father relieved after Malaysian court frees tourist Read more The judge, Dean Wayne Daly, said: “This court accepted the plea of guilty as mitigation.” He also noted the remorse of the tourists, and accepted that although Hawkins was arrested at an airport “there was nothing to show Eleanor was absconding the law”.
  • (3) It says the very nature of the orders carries an inherent risk that the terror suspect will abscond, but that such incidents should not be allowed to undermine the principle that such restrictions should be individually tailored to each suspect.
  • (4) During prime minister’s questions, Cameron said: “We’re making progress, the buck does stop with me, but I wouldn’t mind a bit of cross-party support for the actions we need to take.” The NAO report, released Monday, revealed that one in six foreign offenders living in the community had absconded.
  • (5) I felt so alone.” But if Marina left, under the UAE’s kafala system, she would become an absconding worker.
  • (6) Mazzaro has been on the run for three months and the San Lorenzo captain is suspected of keeping in touch with him throughout that time and helping him abscond.
  • (7) "While the relocation power was used in control orders nobody absconded and the courts consistently upheld them as proportionate and lawful.
  • (8) It was triggered by a man who absconded from quarantine in Freetown, in order to visit his mother at the end of Ramadan.
  • (9) Polanski absconded before the sentencing, however, and has lived in France ever since.
  • (10) In the aftermath of his disappearance, speculation was rife that Xiros, the son of a fundamentalist Orthodox priest, had decided to abscond because he had fallen in love with a woman he met on a previous release from prison.
  • (11) The Guardian comments that people will be re-detained because of the risk of absconding.
  • (12) Judge Alistair McCreath said: "When a defendant makes a considered decision to abscond as you did he or she has shown a contemptuous disregard for that important obligation and that in itself matters."
  • (13) In the course of treatment three absconded and one died from acute pneumonia with respiratory and heart failure.
  • (14) The judge had concluded that because of the "serious" nature of the allegations against Assange, his "comparatively weak community ties" in the UK, and the fact it was believed he had the financial means and the ability to abscond, there was a substantial risk he would fail to surrender to the courts.
  • (15) It is they, overwhelmingly, who absconded to the yes camp; their elders who remained firmly no.
  • (16) Technically, if they absconded [without] the proper process of authorisation in leaving the States, does the US recognise that they’re here?
  • (17) Despite the implicit concession, the immigration minister continued to contend it was Labor’s fault for depriving the customs system of resources, and for not adjusting the security screening settings – even though Sharrouf absconded in December 2013, when the Coalition was in government.
  • (18) The judge, Howard Riddle, said Rancadore should be allowed to return home on police bail on the condition that he lives and sleeps at his address in Uxbridge, reports to the local police station twice daily, wears an electronic tag and puts up £50,000 security in case he absconds.
  • (19) "The home secretary also needs to provide information about the decisions made over Mohammed Ahmed Mohamed's Tpim [terrorism prevention and investigation measures order], how he was able to abscond and what the risks to the public are."
  • (20) The number of children absconding from a Salvation Army home for boys in Queensland reached unprecedented levels at a time a child prostitution ring was believed to be operating in the area, an inquiry into child sexual abuse has been told.

Liberate


Definition:

  • (a.) To release from restraint or bondage; to set at liberty; to free; to manumit; to disengage; as, to liberate a slave or prisoner; to liberate the mind from prejudice; to liberate gases.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The amount of stearic acid liberated was much larger than that of arachidonic acid between 30 s and 1 min of ischemia.
  • (2) Brown's model, which goes far further than those from any other senior Labour figure, and the modest new income tax powers for Holyrood devised when he was prime minister, edge the party much closer to the quasi-federal plans championed by the Liberal Democrats.
  • (3) By means of rapid planar Hill type antimony-bismuth thermophiles the initial heat liberated by papillary muscles was measured synchronously with developed tension for control (C), pressure-overload (GOP), and hypothyrotic (PTU) rat myocardium (chronic experiments) and after application of 10(-6) M isoproterenol or 200 10(-6) M UDCG-115.
  • (4) The cercaria, microcercous in type, is liberated and actively penetrates a second terrestrial pulmonate where development to the free metacercarial stage takes place in the pericardial cavity.
  • (5) The bacterial strains did not liberate free patulin from the adduct mixture present in the growth medium.
  • (6) The Chinese model of development, which combines political repression and economic liberalism, has attracted numerous admirers in the developing world.
  • (7) CCK-OP and PMA activated phospholipase A (PLA) which liberated lysophosphatidylcholine (LPC) and free fatty acids from membrane phosphatidylcholine.
  • (8) Yet it is liberal Muslims such as Sadiq Khan who are best placed to challenge extremist views within their own communities.
  • (9) As he gears up to contest the Liberal Democrat seat of Gordon in north-east Scotland, Salmond effectively assumes a commanding role in the general election campaign.
  • (10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nick Clegg and the Liberal Democrats have suffered a dramatic slump in support as a result of their role in the coalition and are now barely ahead of the Greens with an average rating of about 8% in the polls.
  • (11) The Liberal party received $320,000 from the Australian Southern Bluefin Tuna Industry Association.
  • (12) The reactivity of the three disulphide bridges of insulin towards sodium sulphite was studied by amperometric titration of the liberated thiol groups.
  • (13) But, in a sign of tension within the coalition government, the Liberal Democrats home affairs spokesman, Tom Brake, told BBC2's Newsnight that "if [the offenders in question] had committed the same offence the day before the riots, they would not have received a sentence of that nature".
  • (14) ), like phenoxybenzamine, blocked responses to field stimulation, but failed to modify release and subsequent metabolism of NA liberated by field stimulation.8.
  • (15) There are a few seats, such as South Dorset and Braintree, where the Liberal Democrats are in third place and a third party revival would help the Conservatives to regain the seats lost to Labour but they are outnumbered by vulnerable Tory marginals.
  • (16) The results provide further in vivo evidence that ROI are causative agents in H liberation during reperfusion of the ischemic gut.
  • (17) The kidney KGA activity was compared with the urinary KGA activity, and the following properties were found to be the same: molecular dimension, pH optimum, effect of inhibitors, and ability to liberate kinins from kininogens.3.
  • (18) Speaking to reporters at the Pentagon, People's Liberation Army's chief of the general staff Gen Fang Fenghui also warned that the US must be objective about tensions between China and Vietnam or risk harming relations between Washington and Beijing.
  • (19) The Dacre review panel, which included Sir Joseph Pilling, a retired senior civil servant, and the historian Prof Sir David Cannadine, said Britain now had one of the "less liberal" regimes in Europe for access to confidential government papers and that reform was needed to restore some trust between politicians and people.
  • (20) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.