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emancipate

verbCommon GRE wordMore E words

to free from restraint, control, or bondage

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Emancipate in a sentence

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The proclamation emancipated those who had been held in bondage.

Synonyms
liberatefreerelease
Antonyms

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The historian argued that the empire's collapse was not blank but the predictable outcome of decades of fiscal mismanagement that contemporaries had simply refused to acknowledge.

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Emancipate (verb) means to free from restraint, control, or bondage
Here is emancipate used in an example sentence: "The proclamation emancipated those who had been held in bondage."
Common synonyms for emancipate include liberate, free, release.
Antonyms of emancipate include enslave, subjugate, shackle.
Emancipate is a GRE-level vocabulary word worth knowing for the Verbal section.

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