emancipate Definition

emancipate
verb

emancipated, emancipating
1. To set someone free from slavery, or from some other social or political restraint.

Thesaurus: set free, free, liberate, release, deliver, discharge, unchain, unfetter, unshackle, disencumber, enfranchise; Antonym: enslave.

Derivative: emancipated
adj

Derivative: emancipation
noun

The action of releasing someone from social restraint, or the state of being released
Thesaurus: freedom, liberty, release, deliverance, discharge, enfranchisement; Antonym: enslavement.

Derivative: emancipator
noun

Etymology: 17c: from Latin emancipare, emancipatum to give independence to (one's child or wife), from mancipare to transfer property.