transitive. To release (a person) from slavery, bondage, or servitude; to set free. Also intransitive: to obtain one's release from slavery, etc.

transitive. To free (a slave), release (a captive); = manumit, v. 1a.

To admit to freedom, set free (a slave or serf).

= enfranchise, v.

transitive. To emancipate, set free.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1b(b). Cf. Dutch ontslaven.)

transitive. To set free from enthralment or bondage; to liberate from thraldom.

(un-, prefix2 affix 1a.)

transitive. To set free from enslavement; to liberate from slavery.