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MANUMIT (manumitted, manumitting)

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Irregular inflected forms: manumitted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation, manumitting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation

 Dictionary entry overview: What does manumit mean? 

MANUMIT (verb)
  The verb MANUMIT has 1 sense:

1. free from slavery or servitudeplay

  Familiarity information: MANUMIT used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


MANUMIT (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they manumit  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it manumits  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: manumitted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: manumitted  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: manumitting  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Free from slavery or servitude

Classified under:

Verbs of political and social activities and events

Synonyms:

emancipate; manumit

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)


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