ISEE/SSAT Vocabulary BuilderWordsEemancipate
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emancipate
Meaning: to free from control, restraint, or oppression
emancipate in a sentence
How emancipate is used in real sentences:
The reformers sought to emancipate workers trapped by unfair contracts.
The new law emancipated families who had lived for generations under bondage.
“The shared digital model helped emancipate the dispute from the museum’s cracked plaster cast, which had exaggerated a hollow near the bone’s center.”
— from the passage The Bone That Would Not Settle
Synonyms for emancipate
Other words for emancipate — liberate, free and release — carry the same meaning.
- liberate
- free
- release
Antonyms of emancipate
Words that mean the opposite of emancipate:
- enslave
- subjugate
- confine
Where it comes from
From Latin emancipare, meaning 'to set free from authority.'
Word parts
- man/manu — hand
emancipate: e- (out; form of ex-) + man (hand) + cip (take) + -ate (make)
Memory hook
EMANCIPATE contains 'escape': to emancipate someone is to help that person escape control.
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