Emancipate and Jail

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Emancipate verb - To set free (as from slavery or confinement).

Usage example: under the cover of darkness animal rights activists emancipated the inhabitants of the mink ranch

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Jail is an antonym for emancipate.

Nearby Words: emancipation, emancipating, emancipative, emancipatory

Jail verb - To put in or as if in prison.

Usage example: threatened to jail the punks if they so much as jaywalked

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Emancipate is an antonym for jail.

Nearby Words: jailed, jailer, jailing, jailor

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