emancipateverb [ T ]
uk/iˈmæn.sɪ.peɪt/us/iˈmæn.sə.peɪt/to give people social or political freedom and rights
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Liberating, relaxing and releasing
- chillax
- decontrol
- deregulate
- exempt
- free
- get
- get (sb/sth) out
- liberate
- loose
- loosen
- loosen (sb) up
- loosen sb's tongue idiom 1
- loosen sb's tongue
- relax your grip/hold idiom
- release
- unbind
- unconfined
- unhand
- untethered
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Examples from literature
- But she considered herself to be emancipated from control.
- It neither made him to be humane to his slaves, nor to emancipate them.
- Produce a bill to emancipate the slaves in the District of Columbia, or, if you prefer it, to emancipate those born hereafter.
- She and her husband distinguished themselves several years ago, in Jamaica, by immediately emancipating their slaves.
- The strength of the council lay not in itself but in the circumstances that had quickened its intelligence, dispelled its vanities, and emancipated it from traditional ambitions and antagonisms.