emancipate
verb (used with object)
to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
emancipates
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present tense formof emancipate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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“When I do that, it emancipates me. When I put it in my films, I get rid of it.”
From New York Times ● Jan. 27, 2023
The New York Herald said of Lincoln’s order: “While the proclamation leaves slavery untouched where his decree can be enforced, he emancipates slaves where his decree cannot be enforced.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2019
And the third, optimistically entitled ‘The robot emancipates itself’, explores their present status and looks to the future.
From Nature ● Apr. 26, 2018
Is a society that, in many ways, emancipates women from marriage, and gives them sexual freedom, actually producing glorified 1950s housewives who have no choices other than motherhood?
From The Guardian ● Apr. 1, 2017
He relies on the general law which protects him, and emancipates himself from some particular law which he finds oppressive to his conscience.
From Liberalism by L. T. (Leonard Trelawny) Hobhouse
