emancipate
To set free from the oppression or restraint of anotherTo set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
» Are you emancipated?
Bist du emanzipiert?
Seid ihr emanzipiert?
Sind Sie emanzipiert?
Meaning
7 senses(transitive)To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
(transitive)To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.
to emancipate a colony
(also, reflexive, transitive)Often 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
(transitive)To release (a minor) from the legal authority and custody which a parent or guardian has over them; also (Ancient Rome, historical), to release (a child) from the legal authority of the paterfamilias.
The child was emancipated from her parents
(also, figuratively, reflexive, transitive)Often 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.
(obsolete, transitive)To place (something) under one's control; specifically (chiefly reflexive), to cause (oneself or someone) to become the slave of another person; to enslave; also, to subjugate (oneself or someone).
(intransitive, obsolete)To become free from the oppression or restraint of another.
- give equal rights to; of women and minorities
- free from slavery or servitude
Examples
5 sentencesAre you emancipated?
deBist du emanzipiert? — Waldelfe
Tom emancipated one of his slaves.
ruТом дал вольную одному из своих рабов. — odexed
He promised the slaves that they would be emancipated.
There are five ways to emancipate themselves from the bond of worldly passions.
We anarchists do not want to emancipate the people; we want the people to emancipate themselves.
Translations
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Origin
Learned borrowing from Latin ēmancipātus (“liberated, emancipated”) + English -ate (suffixLearned borrowing from Latin ēmancipātus (“liberated, emancipated”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by the specified thing’). Ēmancipātus is the perfect passive participle of ēmancipō (“to declare (someone) free and independent of another’s power, emancipate; to give (something) from one’s authority or power into that of another, to alienate, transfer; to cause (oneself or someone) to become another’s slave; to make (someone) subservient”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mancipō (“to sell; to transfer”) (from manceps (“owner, possessor; purchaser; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs)).
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Forms
emancipates, emancipating, emancipated, emancipated| Base form | emancipate · to emancipate |
|---|---|
| 3rd person singular | emancipates |
| Present participle | emancipating |
| Past simple | emancipated |
| Past participle | emancipated |
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Synonyms
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17 related wordsLessons for this word
3 lessons- A1Present simple — Because it is a verb
- A1Past simple, regular verbs — Because of its past form
- A2Present perfect: introduction — Because of its past participle