free someone from something—
1. rid a person from smth. undesirable:
- He was determined to free the child from the stultifying effects of the formal classroom, with its fixation on discipline.
2. release a person from some physical hindrance:
- As soon as they arrived the colonel took the old man in his office after ordering to free him from the ropes.
make someone free of something—
1. give a person permission to make free use of smth. one owns:
- Miss Tyler made him free of her house till his own eccentricities, and her wrath at his marriage, drove him out.
2. = free someone from something 1:
- I know that the management is mostly to blame for scheduling and everything, but that doesn’t make him free of responsibility.