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    emancipate
    /ɪˈmansɪpeɪt/

    verb

    • 1. set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions: "the people were emancipated from the shackles of oppression"

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  2. www.merriam-webster.com › dictionary › emancipateEmancipate Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster

    The meaning of EMANCIPATE is to free from restraint, control, or the power of another; especially : to free from bondage. How to use emancipate in a sentence. Synonym Discussion of Emancipate.

  3. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishEMANCIPATE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    EMANCIPATE definition: 1. to give people social or political freedom and rights 2. to give people social or political…. Learn more.

  4. www.dictionary.com › browse › emancipateEMANCIPATE Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

    Emancipate definition: to free from restraint, influence, or the like.. See examples of EMANCIPATE used in a sentence.

  5. dictionary.cambridge.org › us › dictionaryEMANCIPATE | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary

    EMANCIPATE meaning: 1. to give people social or political freedom and rights 2. to give people social or political…. Learn more.

  6. www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com › english › emancipateemancipate verb - Definition, pictures, pronunciation and usage...

    to free somebody, especially from legal, political or social controls that limit what they can do synonym free. be emancipated Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States. be emancipated from something They felt they had at last been emancipated from their father’s control.

  7. www.collinsdictionary.com › dictionary › englishEMANCIPATE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary

    verb. If people are emancipated, they are freed from unpleasant or unfair social, political, or legal restrictions. [formal] Catholics were emancipated in 1792. [be VERB -ed] That war preserved the Union and emancipated enslaved people. [VERB noun] ...the newly emancipated state.

  8. dictionary.cambridge.org › dictionary › englishEMANCIPATION | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

    the act of freeing a person from another person's control:

  9. www.vocabulary.com › dictionary › emancipateEmancipate - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms | Vocabulary.com

    If you emancipate someone, you set them free from something. At the end of the Civil War, slaves were emancipated and became free men and women.

  10. www.collinsdictionary.com › english-word › emancipateEMANCIPATE - All you need to know about it | Collins English...

    A complete guide to the word "EMANCIPATE": definitions, pronunciations, synonyms, grammar insights, collocations, examples, and translations.

  11. www.thefreedictionary.com › emancipateEmancipate - definition of emancipate by The Free Dictionary

    1. to free from restriction or restraint, esp social or legal restraint. 2. ( often passive) to free from the inhibitions imposed by conventional morality. 3. to liberate (a slave) from bondage. [C17: from Latin ēmancipāre to give independence (to a son), from mancipāre to transfer property, from manceps a purchaser; see manciple] eˈmanciˌpated adj