emancipate
/ɪˈmænsəpeɪt/
verb
- To set free from legal, social, or political restrictions or slavery.
- The president signed a law to emancipate all enslaved people in the territory.
- Many activists worked for decades to emancipate women and give them the right to vote.
- The court decided to emancipate the teenager from her parents' control so she could live independently.
- To free someone from a situation or way of thinking that limits them.
- She felt that traveling abroad would emancipate her from her narrow worldview.
- The new technology helped emancipate workers from repetitive, boring tasks.
- Learning to read can emancipate a person from ignorance and poverty.