emancipate
verb (used with object)
to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
has emancipated
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present perfectof emancipate (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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“The German musical has emancipated itself from its American role models in a clever, mature and very Berlin way,” the paper’s critic, Hellmut Kotschenreuther, wrote.
From New York Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Once the slave of arbitrariness, Bjørn has emancipated himself only by a sovereign exaggeration of arbitrariness.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 15, 2018
I have realised how splendidly Labour has emancipated itself there compared to its slow progress in this country.
From A People's Man by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
They have subverted the first houses, totally ruined and undone the country, cheated and defrauded the revenue,—the master a silent, sometimes a melancholy spectator, until some office of high emolument has emancipated him.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 09 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
The National Association is trying the constitutional method, which has emancipated and enfranchised the African and secured to that race all their civil rights.
From History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III by Elizabeth Cady Stanton
