affranchise
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- affranchize (possibly nonstandard)
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affranchise (third-person singular simple present affranchises, present participle affranchising, simple past and past participle affranchised)
- (transitive) To free from obligation, servitude or service.
- Eventually, the intention was that they should affranchise all the slaves.