Emancipate

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To free from bondage, oppression, or restraint; liberate.
  • v. Law To release (a child) from the control of parents or a guardian.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
  • v. To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
  • adj. Freed; set at liberty.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: (a) To set free, as a minor from a parent. (b) To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit.
  • v. To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
  • adj. Set at liberty.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To set free from servitude or bondage by voluntary act; restore from slavery to freedom; liberate: as, to emancipate a slave.
  • To set free or liberate; in a general sense, to free from civil restriction, or restraint of any kind; liberate from bondage, subjection, or controlling power or influence: as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
  • Synonyms Emancipate, Manumit, Enfranchise, Liberate, disenthrall, release, unfetter, unshackle. To manumit is the act of an individual formally freeing a slave; the word has no figurative uses. To emancipate is to free from a literal or a figurative slavery: as, the slaves in the West Indies were emancipated; to emancipate the mind. To enfranchise is to bring into freedom or into civil rights; hence the word often refers to the lifting of a slave into full civil equality with freemen. Liberate is a general word for setting or making free, whether from slavery, from confinement, or from real or figurative oppressions, as fears, doubts, etc.
  • Freed; emancipated.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. give equal rights to; of women and minorities
  • v. free from slavery or servitude
    • Verb Form
    emancipated    emancipates    emancipating   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    turn    change state    set free    liberate   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    liberate    manumit    free   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    jury    double-damned    ticket-of-leave    runaway    unpardoned   
     
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