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MANUMIT
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Irregular inflected forms: manumitted , manumitting
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they manumit ... he / she / it manumits
Past simple: manumitted
-ing form: manumitting
Sense 1
Meaning:
Free from slavery or servitude
Synonyms:
emancipate; manumit
Classified under:
Verbs of political and social activities and events
Hypernyms (to "manumit" is one way to...):
liberate; set free (grant freedom to)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s somebody
Derivation:
manumission (the formal act of freeing from slavery)
manumitter (someone who frees others from bondage)