emancipate
2 synonyms and 2 antonyms for emancipate, grouped by meaning and by how common each one is.
Verb — To release a person or group from another’s control or oppression; to free them.
Synonyms
Less common
Still standard English, but they carry more weight.
Rare, literary or technical
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Etymology
Learned 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 (...
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