liberator

Definitions

A person who releases or sets someone or something free from imprisonment, confinement, or control.

A person who frees a country, area, or people from an enemy or oppressive government.

Examples

The general was hailed as a liberator after he freed the prisoners from the camp.

Many citizens viewed the rebel leader as a liberator who would finally end the regime's tyranny.

History often remembers the revolutionary as a great liberator of his people.

Synonyms

emancipator deliverer rescuer savior redeemer freer manumitter

Antonyms

oppressor enslaver tyrant captor jailer subjugator persecutor