Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To deprive of a privilege, immunity, or right of citizenship, especially the right to vote; disenfranchise.
- transitive verb To deprive (a corporation, for example) of a privilege or franchise.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To deprive of the rights and privileges of a free citizen; deprive of chartered rights and immunities; deprive of any franchise, especially of the right of voting in elections. Formerly sometimes written diffranchise.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
deprive someone of someprivilege , especially theright tovote ; todisenfranchise .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb deprive of voting rights
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Examples
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Thirty-two states in clear terms disfranchise (or give the
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I have taken it upon myself to challenge and confront those who would disfranchise American
Dr Gyi 2010
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The Oligarchy has kicked into high gear, exploiting the social dislocations of the Great Recession to disfranchise, pulverize, bat down, and crush the working middle class.
Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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The Oligarchy has kicked into high gear, exploiting the social dislocations of the Great Recession to disfranchise, pulverize, bat down, and crush the working middle class.
Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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Sure your followers will surly vote for you those disfranchise republicans.
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The Oligarchy has kicked into high gear, exploiting the social dislocations of the Great Recession to disfranchise, pulverize, bat down, and crush the working middle class.
Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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America to disfranchise Americans of the Muslim faith.
Dr Gyi 2010
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The Oligarchy has kicked into high gear, exploiting the social dislocations of the Great Recession to disfranchise, pulverize, bat down, and crush the working middle class.
Joseph A. Palermo: Civic-Minded Plutocrats Joseph A. Palermo 2010
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To disfranchise women is deliberately to turn from knowledge and grope in ignorance.
DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004
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Against this backdrop, the right-of-center government led by Netanyahu appears to be committed to disfranchise Palestinians, suppress opposition, undermine democratic values and forsake the moral tenants on which the state of Israel was created.
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