to disenfranchise

Examples

• All

• First, the state has a very troubling history of disenfranchising Native Americans.

  Academic text (2017)

• White supremacists devised the "Mississippi Plan" to systematically intimidate and disenfranchise black voters in the 1875 elections.

  Academic text (2017)

• All these benefit the poor and disenfranchised.

  Path to War (2003)

• The presumption is that you only disenfranchise out of necessity.

• The programs that are successfully reaching out to formerly disenfranchised students are taking their culture into account.

  Academic text (1999)

• This project can be the catalyst to a new movement that will benefit disenfranchised youth and their families all across this country.

  Where Hearts Lie (2016)

• He's trying to say that Trump violated that by trying to disenfranchise voters and getting things changed.

  Megyn Kelly

• By the last decade of the nineteenth century, Georgia legislators worked to disenfranchise the state's black male population.

  Academic text (2008)

• In any case, those who had intended to vote Communist found themselves unexpectedly disenfranchised.

  Academic text (2011)

• The new voting laws may disenfranchise many eligible voters in the upcoming election.

Synonyms

D

to disfranchise

vsto disenfranchise

• Formal

1 9.0

To take away someone's right to vote or other legal rights

focuses on citizenship rights rather than broader legal rights

D

to disentitle

vsto disenfranchise

• Formal

8.1

To take away someone's right or claim to something

deprives political voting and citizenship rights rather than status titles

Antonyms

E

to enfranchise

2 8.2

To give someone the right to vote

How Enfranchised

to empower

157 4.2

to enfranchise

2 8.2

to disenfranchise

• Formal

43 8.8

to deny

423 1.6

to exclude

338 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology