emancipate

Word: emancipate

Context Sentence: Some writers, pointing for instance to the formanl legal equality that women have with men, suggest that women are now fully **emancipated**, and have no need for any further changes

Source: Nicholas Abercrombie and Alan Warde, (2003) //Contemporary British Society// PP193

Definition: v. set sb free, esp from political, legal or social restrictions

e.g: Women are still struggling to be fully emancipated.