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   emancipate

   /ɪˈmansɪpeɪt/

   verb

   • 1. set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions: "the people were emancipated from the shackles of oppression"
   • ▪ set (a child) free from the authority of its parents: "the plaintiffs had not been entirely emancipated from their father's control"
   • ▪ free (someone) from slavery: "it is estimated that he emancipated 8,000 slaves"

   Word Origin early 17th century: from Latin emancipat- ‘transferred as property’, from the verb emancipare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + mancipium ‘slave’.

   Derivatives

   • 1. emancipatory adjective

   Scrabble Points: 16

   • E

     1

   • M

     3

   • A

     1

   • N

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   • C

     3

   • I

     1

   • P

     3

   • A

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   • T

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   • E

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