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Past tense of emancipate

regular verb

The past tense of emancipate is emancipated. The past participle is also emancipated.

Forms of emancipate

Base form (V1)emancipate /ɪˈmæn(t)sɪpeɪt/
Past tense (V2)emancipated
Past participle (V3)emancipated
Present participleemancipating
Third person singularemancipates

Emancipated in a sentence

  • The child was emancipated from her parents
  • When I was fourteen, I was emancipated by the courts.2015, Drew Barrymore, “My Beautiful Laundrette”, in Wildflower, New York, N.Y.: Dutton, →ISBN, page 31
  • We're left to our own devices, you and I, emancipated and gateless.2013, Steve Erickson, Tours of the Black Clock: A Novel, →ISBN. From the entry gateless
  • Different from both, Dusyanta seems to espouse what may be termed as emancipated evocationism.1991, Girdhari Lal Chaturvedi, Re-visiting Śākuntalam, page 113. From the entry evocationism
  • But the grand passion of emancipated youth is not Woman - it is Beer.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 19. From the entry grand passion

Meaning of emancipate

  1. verb To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate.
  2. verb To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.
  3. verb Often followed by from: chiefly with reference to slavery in the United States, and in Central and South America: to set free (oneself or someone) from imprisonment, or from serfdom or slavery.

Full definition of emancipate

Questions about the past tense of emancipate

What is the past tense of emancipate?
The past tense of emancipate is emancipated.
What is the past participle of emancipate?
The past participle of emancipate is emancipated.
Is emancipate a regular or irregular verb?
Emancipate is a regular verb: its past tense adds -d.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: emancipate (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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