MANUMITTED Synonyms: 78 Similar and Opposite Words

manumitted 1 of 2

adjective

as in emancipated

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manumitted

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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

In 2016, Brexiteers imagined that other European countries would follow their example and cheerily recover absolute sovereignty as liberated nation-states.

— Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
Patrons unwilling to feel quite so liberated can leave their bathrobes on all evening long, Hart says.

— Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 1 Aug. 2026

Definition of liberated

Verb

Those two freed a third person, who was only partially buried, and the three were able to dig out three other skiers.

— Andrew Graham, Sacbee.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Vlasova, who during her years in Russian detention had watched countless times as others were freed and she was left behind, wept.

— Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026

Definition of freed

Adjective

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

Definition of freeborn

Verb

Along for the ride in pouches behind its mandibles are spores of a fungus that are released as the insect chews through the wood.

— Jack Bantock, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Inspector General Eliot Prescott released a 26-page report detailing the findings of his investigation into the death of 33-year-old Gamboy Guaranda at the New Haven Correctional Center on April 16.

— Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 13 Aug. 2026

Definition of released

Verb

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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