C1verb
s’affranchir de
to free oneself from, to break free from
« Il a fini par s’affranchir des conventions de son milieu. »
“He eventually freed himself from the conventions of his social circle.”
In other languages
- Spanish liberarse de, emanciparse de
- Portuguese libertar-se de, emancipar-se de
- German sich befreien von
- Italian affrancarsi da, liberarsi da
- Arabic يتحرر من
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