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| Main Entry: |
emancipate
 [ih-man-suh-peyt] 
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| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set free |
| Synonyms: | affranchise, deliver, discharge, disencumber, disenthral, enfranchise, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, unbind, unchain, unfetter, unshackle |
| Antonyms: | hold, imprison, incarcerate |
| Main Entry: | deliver |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | free, liberate |
| Synonyms: | acquit, discharge, emancipate, loose, ransom, redeem, release, rescue, save, unshackle |
| Antonyms: | confine, detain, imprison, restrain, restrict |
| Main Entry: | detached |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | disconnected |
| Synonyms: | alone, apart, discrete, disjoined, divided, emancipated, free, isolate, isolated, loose, loosened, removed, separate, severed, unaccompanied, unconnected |
| Antonyms: | attached, combined, connected, coupled, linked, merged, united |
Example Sentences
- They were emancipated in his will and some were paid pensions for decades.
- In real life, there's a more enlightened, emancipated and perhaps extended family at the table.
- Only once mankind is emancipated will people act according to their true, co-operative nature.
| Main Entry: | discharge |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set free |
| Synonyms: | absolve, acquit, allow to go, clear, disimprison, dismiss, emancipate, exonerate, expel, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, oust, pardon, release, unbind, unchain, unshackle |
| Antonyms: | detain, hold, imprison, keep |
| Main Entry: | disentangle |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | unwind, disconnect; solve |
| Synonyms: | bail one out, clear up, detach, discumber, disembroil, disencumber, disengage, disinvolve, emancipate, expand, extricate, free, let go, let off, loose, open, part, resolve, separate, sever, simplify, sort out, sunder, unbraid, undo, unfold, unravel, unscramble, unsnarl, untangle, untie, untwine, untwist, work out |
| Antonyms: | entangle, entwine, twist, wind |
| Main Entry: | enfranchise |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | set free |
| Synonyms: | citizenize, emancipate, empower, free, give rights to, grant citizenship to, liberate, manumit, naturalize, release |
| Antonyms: | enslave |
| Main Entry: | free |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unrestrained politically |
| Synonyms: | at liberty, autarchic, autonomic, autonomous, democratic, emancipated, enfranchised, freed, independent, individualistic, liberated, self-directing, self-governing, self-ruling, separate, sovereign, sui juris, unconstrained, unenslaved, unregimented |
| Antonyms: | barred, bound, enslaved, prevented, suppressed |
| Main Entry: | free |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | liberate, let go |
| Synonyms: | absolve, acquit, bail, bail out, clear, cut loose, deliver, demobilize, discharge, disengage, disenthrall, disimprison, dismiss, emancipate, enfranchise, extricate, let loose, let off the hook, let off, let out, loose, loosen, manumit, pardon, parole, put on the street, ransom, redeem, release, relieve, reprieve, rescue, save, set free, spring*, turn loose, turn out, unbind, uncage, unchain, undo, unfetter, unfix, unleash, untie |
| Antonyms: | confine, enslave, hold, incarcerate, restrain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liberate |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | give freedom |
| Synonyms: | bail one out, deliver, detach, discharge, disembarrass, emancipate, free, free up, get out from under, let loose, let out, loose, loosen, manumit, redeem, release, rescue, save, save one's neck, set free, unbind, unchain, unhook, unshackle |
| Antonyms: | hold back, limit, prevent, restrain |
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