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Emancipate

Verb

Definitions

1.VerbTo set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate. To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.
":; to emancipate a colony; to pass a law emancipating slaves; The child was emancipated from her parents; Education can emancipate us from error or prejudices."
2.VerbTo set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate. To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.
":; to emancipate a colony; to pass a law emancipating slaves; The child was emancipated from her parents"
3.VerbTo cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.
":; to emancipate a colony"
4.VerbOften followed by from: chiefly with reference to slavery in the United States, and in Central and South America: to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery.
"to pass a law emancipating slaves"
5.VerbTo release (a minor) from the legal authority and custody which a parent or guardian has over them; also , to release (a child) from the legal authority of the paterfamilias.
"The child was emancipated from her parents"
6.VerbOften followed by from: to free (oneself or someone, or something) from some constraint or controlling influence (especially when evil or undue); also, to free (oneself or someone) from mental oppression.
"Education can emancipate us from error or prejudices."
7.VerbTo place (something) under one's control; specifically , to cause (oneself or someone) to become the slave of another person; to enslave; also, to subjugate (oneself or someone).
8.VerbTo become free from the oppression or restraint of another.
9.AdjectiveSynonym of emancipated (“having been set free from someone's control, or from some constraint; at liberty, free”).
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