verb
- transitive to save, to rescue, to deliver, to preserve
- to free, to exempt
- transitive to place, to put (hope, trust)
- transitive to issue (a check, a decree)
- to make (an appointment)
- transitive to wage, to engage (battle, war)
- intransitive to give birth
- intransitive to expel the placenta
- Spain, colloquial, intransitive to be free; to be off (from work, school, etc.)