Defining and Free

Defining

Defining noun - Any process serving to define the shape of something.

Free is an antonym for defining in delimit topic.

Free

Free verb - To set free (as from slavery or confinement).

Defining is an antonym for free.

Nearby Words: freely, freed

Both words in one sentence

  • Comic Book / Doctor Doom Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Doom may be a bonafide supervillain, but his willingness to do whatever is necessary to free his mother from the clutches of Mephisto was a fundamental life-defining trait for decades, until Doom was finally victorious.
  • Useful Notes / Luxembourg Thankfully for Luxembourg, this was not to be, especially since — in large part because of German highhandedness — Luxembourg became culturally and politically estranged from Germany while defining itself as a free, independent, constitutional monarchy.
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