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adjective

Definition of emancipatednext
as in liberated

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emancipated

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verb

past tense of emancipate
as in freed
to set free (as from slavery or confinement) under the cover of darkness animal rights activists emancipated the inhabitants of the mink ranch

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  1. liberated
  2. freed
  3. released
  4. rescued
  5. freeborn
Adjective
  • Try to live life in a more free and liberated way in August.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2024
  • That label was reserved for liberated prisoners of war.
    Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of liberated
Verb
  • The team’s next goal is to explore how plant life colonizes landscapes that have recently been freed from ice, and to predict how this process might unfold in the future.
    Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Iraq’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said she was freed after over four months of efforts from Iraqi government agencies working with American and Jordanian authorities.
    Nechirvan Mando, Michael Rios and Mohammed Tawfeeq, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of freed
Verb
  • Chu said the musical adaptation, which premiered on Broadway in 2003, was also coincidentally released during a momentous time.
    Tony Lee, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
  • One bird tutor was then released into each group, so that the flock mates could learn to use one solution over another.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 14 Nov. 2024
Definition of released
Verb
  • The Elephant Nature Park is an elephant rescue and rehabilitation center in the Chiang Mai countryside that has rescued more than 200 elephants from the tourism and logging industries since its inception in the 1990s.
    Kocha Olarn, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • The guard members said crews stationed with them at McGhee Tyson Airport have rescued about 100 people over the weekend and delivered tens of thousands of pounds of supplies.
    NBC News, NBC News, 4 Oct. 2024
Definition of rescued
Adjective
  • The site will also showcase regional heroes of the Underground Railroad, including the work of Smith, a freeborn woman with African American heritage who spent 21 years of her life as Stevens’ house manager and confidante (and, some speculate, his common-law wife).
    Tracy Schorn, Smithsonian Magazine, 1 Dec. 2023
  • Some thralls were born into slavery because both of their parents were enslaved, or a freeborn man who had impregnated their enslaved mother declined to acknowledge the child.
    Neil Price, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Aug. 2020
Definition of freeborn
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