Emaciate vs Emancipate - What's the difference?
emaciate | emancipate |
To make extremely thin or wasted
To become extremely thin or wasted.
To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as:
# To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child.
# To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country.
To free from any controlling influence, especially from anything which exerts undue or evil influence; as, to emancipate one from prejudices or error.
* Evelyn
* A. W. Ward
As verbs the difference between emaciate and emancipate
is that emaciate is to make extremely thin or wasted while emancipate is to set free from the power of another; to liberate; as.As an adjective emancipate is
freed; set at liberty.emaciate
English
Verb
(emaciat)- ''Anorexics ignore that sustained emaciation ends in starvation.
Derived terms
* emaciated * emaciationExternal links
* * ----emancipate
English
(Webster 1913)Verb
(emancipat)- From how many troublesome and slavish impertinences he had emancipated and freed himself.
- to emancipate the human conscience