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emancipate
[ ih-man-suh-peyt ]
verb (used with object)
- to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
- to free (a person) from bondage or slavery.
- Roman and Civil Law. to terminate paternal control over.
emancipate
/ -trɪ; ɪˈmænsɪpətərɪ; ɪˈmænsɪˌpeɪt /
verb
- to free from restriction or restraint, esp social or legal restraint
- often passive to free from the inhibitions imposed by conventional morality
- to liberate (a slave) from bondage
Derived Forms
- ˈԳˌ貹پ, adjective
- ˈԳˌ貹ٴǰ, noun
- ˈԳˌ貹ٱ, adjective
- emancipatory, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ···貹·پ adjective
- ···貹·ٴǰ noun
- non····貹·پ adjective
- un····貹·پ adjective
Word History and Origins
Origin of emancipate1
Word History and Origins
Origin of emancipate1
Synonym Study
Example Sentences
There is a lot of doublespeak, that as women, we have never been as emancipated and free to do what we want as we are today.
At 15, Skye sought to be legally emancipated because other child actors had done the same as a means of averting the legal requirements of minors on set.
“She’s a Black woman who found ways to liberate and emancipate herself in this society, in this world, on her own terms, and that’s what I take away from her legacy,” said Christovale.
Abraham Lincoln fibbed as well, telling newspaper readers in 1862 that he was not considering emancipating the Confederacy’s enslaved people when he’d already decided to do so.
Latching on to the emancipating power of the word "semi," she wrote a "Semi-Homemade" cookbook, and then another.
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