emancipate

  • 11emancipate — 1. verb a) To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: b) To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a …

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  • 12emancipate — verb Emancipate is used with these nouns as the object: ↑slave …

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  • 13emancipate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. t. liberate, free, release, deliver, manumit, set free, enfranchise. See liberation. Ant., enslave. II (Roget s IV) v. Syn. free, release, liberate, deliver; see free 1 . See Synonym Study at free .… …

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  • 14emancipate — [17] Despite modern associations with women’s liberation, emancipate has no etymological connection with man. It comes from Latin ēmancipāre, which meant originally ‘free from parental power’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 15emancipate — verb (T) formal to make someone free from social, political, or legal restrictions that limit what they can do: Learning will emancipate the oppressed and engender social change. emancipation noun (U): the emancipation of slaves …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 16emancipate — [17] Despite modern associations with women’s liberation, emancipate has no etymological connection with man. It comes from Latin ēmancipāre, which meant originally ‘free from parental power’. This was a compound verb formed from the prefix ex… …

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  • 17Emancipate Myself — infobox single Name = Emancipate Myself Caption = Artist = Thirsty Merc from Album = First Work Thirsty Merc Label = Warner Music Australia Format = Digital download Writer = Rai Thistlethwayte Phil Stack Producer = Thirsty Merc Genre = Pop rock… …

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  • 18emancipate — transitive verb ( pated; pating) Etymology: Latin emancipatus, past participle of emancipare, from e + mancipare to transfer ownership of, from mancip , manceps contractor, from manus hand + capere to take more at manual, heave Date: 1613 1. to… …

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  • 19emancipate — emancipative, adj. emancipator, n. /i man seuh payt /, v.t., emancipated, emancipating. 1. to free from restraint, influence, or the like. 2. to free (a slave) from bondage. 3. Roman and Civil Law. to terminate paternal control over. [1615 25; <&#8230; …

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  • 20emancipate — Synonyms and related words: affranchise, deliver, discharge, disenthrall, enfranchise, free, let go, let loose, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, rescue, set at large, set at liberty, set free, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unshackle …

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