1. to free from slavery, oppression, or restraint
2. to free a minor from parental control
Usage: legal

Examples

• The Emancipation Proclamation helped emancipate enslaved people in the United States.
• The revolution sought to emancipate the people from tyrannical rule.
• Education can emancipate individuals from poverty and ignorance.
• The court decided to emancipate the teenager from her parents’ custody.
• Women fought to emancipate themselves from restrictive social roles.
• The new laws will emancipate workers from unfair labor practices.