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
The “truth” disclosed in Christ, and which emancipates from sin, must not be too carefully defined.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I by Marcus Dods
