MANUMITTED Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

as in emancipated

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verb

past tense of manumit

as in freed

to set free (as from slavery or confinement) though he was an outspoken defender of liberty, this son of Virginia did not manumit his own slaves until he was on his deathbed

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Adjective

And there were already many claims being made for the nearly $4 billion worth of liberated slaves.

— David Frum, The Atlantic, 10 June 2026
Hungary’s new minister of culture, Zoltán Tarr, shares his vision for fostering freedom of expression in a liberated local art scene.

— Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 14 May 2026

Definition of liberated

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Zarrab, who was born in Iran but was moved to Turkey with his family as a toddler, was initially arrested in 2013 as part of a sweeping anticorruption probe overseen by Turkish law enforcement officials — but he was quickly freed.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
Khanna said he and his team were ultimately freed after communication between the US Embassy and a high-level official in the Israeli government.

— Kaanita Iyer, CNN Money, 11 July 2026

Definition of freed

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Robert—a man born in Africa, enslaved in America, and now a free farmer—and his freeborn African-American herbalist wife, Mary, had worked diligently to ensure this security for themselves and their children.

— Janet Barber, Scientific American, 9 Nov. 2021
Phalanx warfare was so common in ancient Greece that most freeborn males took part in it many times.

— James Romm, The New York Review of Books, 23 Sep. 2021

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In a blistering statement released after Wednesday’s vote, the mayor’s office blasted the commission and longtime Chair Robb Pitts, who recently lost his reelection bid to former Commissioner Mo Ivory.

— Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 16 July 2026
Video released by Iranian state media shows patients being evacuated from Shahid Baghaei Hospital in Iran’s southwestern city of Ahvaz on Wednesday.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Definition of released

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In 1775, his first enslaver sold him to the commander of Framingham's Minute Men, who emancipated him, and Salem went on to fight at Lexington and Concord.

— Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 4 July 2026
The long shadow of the occupation Twenty-three years after George Bush and Tony Blair resolved that Iraqis were to be emancipated, the country remains captive to a masquerade of power.

— Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026

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