emancipate
- IPA[ɪˈmansɪpeɪt]
英式
- set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions；set (a child) free from the authority of its parents
verb: emancipate, 3rd person present: emancipates, gerund or present participle: emancipating, past tense: emancipated, past participle: emancipated
- 釋義
動詞
- 1. set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions the people were emancipated from the shackles of oppression
- ▪ set (a child) free from the authority of its parents the plaintiffs had not been entirely emancipated from their father's control an emancipated minor
- ▪ free (someone) from slavery it is estimated that he emancipated 8,000 slaves
