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adjective

as in liberated

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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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Recent Examples of emancipated
Verb
At home, the United States had defeated their armies, destroyed their infrastructure, retaken their territory, emancipated their enslaved, and devastated their economy and society into a catastrophic mess. — Literary Hub, 19 Oct. 2026 Winter was legally emancipated and declared an adult at age 17 in 2015. — Ashley Hume, FOXNews.com, 18 Aug. 2026 In 1775, his first enslaver sold him to the commander of Framingham's Minute Men, who emancipated him, and Salem went on to fight at Lexington and Concord. — Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 4 July 2026 The long shadow of the occupation Twenty-three years after George Bush and Tony Blair resolved that Iraqis were to be emancipated, the country remains captive to a masquerade of power. — Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026 When Winter was 14 years old, she was placed in the care of her older sister and three years later, she was legally emancipated. — Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 15 May 2026 Colorado law ties teens to their parents unless they can get emancipated by the court. — Fraidy Reiss, Denver Post, 15 Mar. 2026 Even those who emancipated the theory from complex numbers admit that the latter are a natural fit. — Daniel Garisto, Quanta Magazine, 7 Nov. 2025 Nev, who’s now 17 and emancipated, returns to Avan Island. — Mary Ann Grossmann, Twin Cities, 21 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for emancipated
  1. liberated
  2. freed
  3. freeborn
  4. released
  5. rescued
Adjective
  • The slide-out kitchen stores away under the bed so as not to take up any of the liberated floor space.
    — New Atlas, New Atlas, 26 Sep. 2026
  • The liberated bundle then touches down somewhere else in the genome, where native DNA repair processes paste it in.
    — Jake Buehler, Quanta Magazine, 21 Sep. 2026
Definition of liberated
Verb
  • The amateur is freed from the pressures of exhibition and sale, but that might just as easily breed bitterness as happiness.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Cohen escaped to the United States in 1994; Sarraff was arrested in 1995 and spent nearly 20 years in a Cuban prison before being freed in a 2014 prisoner swap.
    — Nora Gámez Torres, Miami Herald, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of freed
Adjective
  • Robert—a man born in Africa, enslaved in America, and now a free farmer—and his freeborn African-American herbalist wife, Mary, had worked diligently to ensure this security for themselves and their children.
    — Janet Barber, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Phalanx warfare was so common in ancient Greece that most freeborn males took part in it many times.
    — James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021
Definition of freeborn
Verb
  • For the tinkering types, Meta also released open weights for Muse’s code to help people connect it to a range of other devices.
    — Marty Swant, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Although officials have not released details about the cause of death, scientists agree that if it was caused by ordinary plague, the wider world has little to worry about.
    — Faye Flam, Scientific American, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of released
Verb
  • Three people were rescued from high waters rushing through the Pacoima Wash on Thursday morning in the San Fernando Valley as the Los Angeles area continues to experience bands of heavy rain and flooding.
    — Grace Toohey, Los Angeles Times, 22 Oct. 2026
  • At the Northwestern campus Saturday, volunteers rescued over 40 live, injured birds, including 35 by the Kellogg School of Management Global Hub, said Allison Sloan, a volunteer with Bird-Friendly Evanston.
    — Adriana Pérez, Chicago Tribune, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of rescued

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“Emancipated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/emancipated. Accessed 29 Oct. 2026.

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