emancipate
21emancipate — e|man|ci|pate [ıˈmænsıpeıt] v [T] [Date: 1600 1700; : Latin; Origin: emancipatus, past participle of emancipare, from mancipium ownership ] formal to give someone the political or legal rights that they did not have before ▪ Slaves were… …
22emancipate — e|man|ci|pate [ ı mænsı,peıt ] verb transitive FORMAL to give freedom and rights to someone: LIBERATE …
23emancipate — [[t]ɪmæ̱nsɪpeɪt[/t]] emancipates, emancipating, emancipated VERB If people are emancipated, they are freed from unpleasant or unfair social, political, or legal restrictions. [FORMAL] [be V ed] Catholics were emancipated in 1792... [V n] That war …
24emancipate — e·man·ci·pate || ɪ mænsɪpeɪt v. liberate, free, release, unshackle …
25emancipate — [ɪ mansɪpeɪt] verb set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions. ↘free from slavery. ↘Law set (a child) free from the authority of its parents. Derivatives emancipation noun emancipator noun emancipatory adjective Origin C17 …
26emancipate — v. a. Enfranchise, manumit, liberate, disenthrall, release, unfetter, unshackle, unchain, free, set free, set at liberty …
27emancipate — verb the young Cowles emancipated his father s serfs Syn: free, liberate, set free, release, deliver, discharge; unchain, unfetter, unshackle, untie, unyoke; rare disenthrall Ant: enslave …
28emancipate — v free, liberate, enfranchise, affranchise, franchise, manumit; release, loose, loosen, let loose, turn loose, set loose, set free, let go, disimprison, unmew; disenthrall, unfetter, unbind, untie, unbridle, unyoke, unshackle, unchain, unhandcuff …
29emancipate — eman·ci·pate …
30emancipate — e•man•ci•pate [[t]ɪˈmæn səˌpeɪt[/t]] v. t. pat•ed, pat•ing 1) to free from restraint 2) to free (a slave) from bondage 3) law Roman and Civil Law. to end paternal control over; give full legal rights to • Etymology: 1615–25; < L ēmancipātus,… …
