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EMANCIPATE
Definition of EMANCIPATE
verb
To set free (a person or group) from the oppression or restraint of another; to liberate. To cause (a place) to be free from the colonization or rule of another entity.
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Where it comes from
Learned borrowing from Latin ēmancipātus (“liberated, emancipated”) + English -ate (suffix forming verbs, and adjectives with the sense ‘characterized by the specified thing’). Ēmancipātus is the perfect passive participle of ēmancipō (“to declare (someone) free and independent of another’s power, emancipate; to give (something) from one’s authority or power into that of another, to alienate, transfer; to cause (oneself or someone) to become another’s slave; to make (someone) subservient”), from ē- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘away; out’)) + mancipō (“to sell; to transfer”) (from manceps (“owner, possessor; purchaser; etc.”) + -ō (suffix forming infinitives of first-conjugation verbs)). The verb emancipate has verb sense 1.1 (“to set free”) and verb sense 1.3 (“(obsolete) to place under one’s control”) which are contradictory. The Latin word ēmancipō had the same senses, and the Oxford English Dictionary notes that according to the Latin grammarian Paulus Festus (fl. 8th century) this is because both actions were effected by the legal process of mancipation.
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OUTLIER scores every word on how unusual it is, and that number is not published. Working it out at the board is the game.
EMANCIPATE in OUTLIER
Players have found it on 17 boards so far. 24 players have found it across Outlier's history.
It first turned up on Day 10, 30 May 2026. The most recent board was Day 102, 30 August 2026. It was on the latest finished board.
First found by a player on Day 10, 30 May 2026.
Built from these letters
EMANCIPATE starts with E and ends with E. Sorted, its letters read AACEEIMNPT - the shape to hunt for when the grid is scrambled. E and A appear more than once.
Words that start EMANCI
Its neighbours in the OUTLIER dictionary - shortest first.
Also seen on Day 10
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