free: implies usually a permanent removal from what binds, confines, entangles or oppresses: ~ the animals from their cages.


release: sug. setting loose from confinement, restraint, or state of pressure and tension: ~ his anger by exercising.


liberate: stresses the resulting state of freedom: ~ the novel from Victorian inhibitions.


emancipate: implies liberation of a person from submission or domination: this device ~ women from housework.


manumit: implies a emancipation from slavery: the proclamation ~ all the slaves.


free永久释放: 永久免于束缚压制, release释放: 放松限制压力(可能是暂时), liberate解放: 强调自由的结果, emancipate: 专指将人解放, manumit: 专指将奴隶解放。


记忆方法：首字母联想，FREe Mother Land，祖国获得自由==〉解放