emancipate
verb [often passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they emancipate | |
| he / she / it emancipates | |
| past simple emancipated | |
| past participle emancipated | |
| -ing form emancipating |
to free somebody, especially from legal, political or social controls that limit what they can do 解放；使不受（法律、政治或社会的）束缚 - be emancipated
Slaves were not emancipated until 1863 in the United States. 美国奴隶直到 1863 年才获得自由。 - be emancipated from something
They felt they had at last been emancipated from their father’s control. 他们觉得自己终于摆脱了父亲的控制。
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEmancipate is used with these nouns as the object:- slave
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from Latin emancipat- ‘transferred as property’, from the verb emancipare, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out’ + mancipium ‘slave’.- be emancipated