emancipate
verb (used with object)
to free from restraint, influence, or the like.
have emancipated
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present perfectof emancipate.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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“We have emancipated youth who, the banks will still give them a hard time about opening a bank account,” she said.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
We have emancipated her, and are opening countless opportunities for our girls outside of marriage.
From Pushing to the Front by Orison Swett Marden
That Plato should have emancipated himself from the ideas of his own country and from the example of the East, shows a wonderful independence of mind.
From The Republic by Benjamin Jowett
Oh, very good," he said; "but what nonsense to have emancipated a self-willed girl.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
For the better security of these new-born civil rights we are now about to pass the greatest and the grandest act in this series of acts that have emancipated a race and disinthralled a nation.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
