"free up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: frees up [present, singular, third-person], freeing up [participle, present], freed up [participle, past], freed up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*|head=free up}} free up (third-person singular simple present frees up, present participle freeing up, simple past and past participle freed up)
  1. (transitive) To make (space or time) available. Tags: transitive Translations (to make (space or time) available): vapauttaa (Finnish), felszabadít (Hungarian), oswobodzić (Polish), освободи́ть (osvobodítʹ) (Russian), вы́свободить (výsvoboditʹ) (Russian), frigöra (Swedish), yer açmak (Turkish)
    Sense id: en-free_up-en-verb-KnDHzKJN Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English phrasal verbs with particle (up)

Inflected forms

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          "code": "fi",
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          "sense": "to make (space or time) available",
          "word": "vapauttaa"
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "to make (space or time) available",
          "word": "felszabadít"
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          "sense": "to make (space or time) available",
          "word": "oswobodzić"
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          "sense": "to make (space or time) available",
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          "sense": "to make (space or time) available",
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      "sense": "to make (space or time) available",
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      "sense": "to make (space or time) available",
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      "sense": "to make (space or time) available",
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