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emancipate

🇬🇧 UK/ɪˈmænsɪpeɪt/🇺🇸 US/i'mænsipeit/
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Definitions

v.

To free someone from oppression, slavery, or controlling authority; to liberate.

解放,使自由,解除束缚

🧩 Root Breakdown

Root-derived
emto put into, to cause
+
anprefix
+
ciptake, seize, hold
+
ateto make, having
=emancipate

Example Sentences

  • 1.

    The movement aimed to emancipate women from traditional constraints.

  • 2.

    The Emancipation Proclamation emancipated slaves in the South.

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