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frigøre — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • emancipate verb To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
  • liberate verb To set someone or something free from confinement, control, or oppression.

Senses

frigøre is used for these senses in English:

  • emancipate To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
  • liberate (transitive) To set free, to make or allow to be free, particularly

emancipate — full definition

  1. verb To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
  2. verb To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.
  3. verb 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.
  4. verb 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.

liberate — full definition

  1. verb To set someone or something free from confinement, control, or oppression.
  2. verb To release a substance or energy through a chemical or physical process.

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