emancipate
verb /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪt/
/ɪˈmænsɪpeɪt/
[often passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they emancipate | /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪt/ /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪt/ |
| he / she / it emancipates | /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪts/ /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪts/ |
| past simple emancipated | /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtɪd/ /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtɪd/ |
| past participle emancipated | /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtɪd/ /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtɪd/ |
| -ing form emancipating | /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtɪŋ/ /ɪˈmænsɪpeɪtɪŋ/ |
- to free somebody, especially from legal, political or social controls that limit what they can do synonym free
- be emancipated Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States.
- be emancipated from something They felt they had at last been emancipated from their father’s control.
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEmancipate is used with these nouns as the object:- slave
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin emancipat- ‘transferred as property’, from the verb emancipare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + mancipium ‘slave’.