OPPRESSION Antonyms

• freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child

• the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant

• the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status

• a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced

• the condition of being free; the power to act or speak or think without externally imposed restraints

• immunity from an obligation or duty

• a city in western Missouri; the beginning of the Santa Fe Trail

• freedom from control or influence of another or others

• the successful ending of the American Revolution

• the act of liberating someone or something

• the attempt to achieve equal rights or status

• the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

• immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence

• freedom of choice

• personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression

• leave granted to a sailor or naval officer

• an act of undue intimacy

• merchandise issued for sale or public showing (especially a record or film)

• the act of liberating someone or something

• a process that liberates or discharges something

• an announcement distributed to members of the press in order to supplement or replace an oral presentation

• the termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)

• euphemistic expressions for death

• a legal document evidencing the discharge of a debt or obligation

• a device that when pressed will release part of a mechanism

• activity that frees or expresses creative energy or emotion

• the act of allowing a fluid to escape

• a formal written statement of relinquishment

• (music) the act or manner of terminating a musical phrase or tone

• release, as from one's grip

• grant freedom to; free from confinement

• let (something) fall or spill from a container

• prepare and issue for public distribution or sale

• eliminate (a substance)

• generate and separate from cells or bodily fluids

• make (information) available for publication

• part with a possession or right

• release (gas or energy) as a result of a chemical reaction or physical decomposition

• make (assets) available

• the feeling that comes when something burdensome is removed or reduced

• the condition of being comfortable or relieved (especially after being relieved of distress)

• (law) redress awarded by a court

• someone who takes the place of another (as when things get dangerous or difficult)

• assistance in time of difficulty

• a pause for relaxation

• a change for the better

• aid for the aged or indigent or handicapped

• the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance)

• sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background

• the act of freeing a city or town that has been besieged