emancipate
/ɪˈmænsɪpeɪt/verb
with obj.
1- set free, especially from legal, social, or political restrictions解放, 使不受(法律、社会或政治的)束缚:
the citizen must be emancipated from the obsessive secrecy of government
公民对政府必须享有知情权
as adj. emancipated emancipated young women.获得解放的年轻妇女。
1.1
- Law set (a child) free from the authority of its father or parents【律】使(孩子)摆脱父亲(或家长)的威权。
1.2
- free from slavery使摆脱奴役:
it is estimated that he emancipated 8,000 slaves.
据估计, 他使8,000名奴隶获得了自由。
派生词
emancipation
nounemancipator
nounemancipatory
adjective词源
early 17th cent.: from Latin emancipat - 'transferred as property', from the verb emancipare, from e - (variant of ex) 'out' + mancipium 'slave'.