DISEMPOWER Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

disempower

verb

Definition of disempower

as in to disenfranchise

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Recent Examples of disempower Eliminating that district to disempower those voters was, apparently, not. — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026 Engage or assist in an attempt to kill or disempower the vast majority of humanity or the human species as a whole. — Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2026 By constructing these alternatives, the governments that helped forge the cease-fire can also help disarm and disempower Hamas. — Matthew Levitt, Foreign Affairs, 14 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for disempower

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To be clear, compulsory voting is the opposite of the poll taxes, which are prohibited by the 24th Amendment and that were once used to disenfranchise.

— Susan Ostermann, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026
Folsom’s order keeping the grace period in effect concluded that plaintiffs are likely to succeed in their constitutional challenge of the law because arbitrarily disenfranchise voters due to mail delays beyond their control.

— Cuyler Dunn, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026

Definition of disenfranchise

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That information could not be used to disqualify a hospice by itself, ACHC argued.

— Jason Henry, Daily News, 9 Aug. 2026
But he was kept off the March 2024 ballot after Russia’s Supreme Court ruled that more than 9,000 signatures submitted by his campaign were invalid — enough to disqualify him.

— ABC News, ABC News, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of disqualify

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Because of safe, effective immunizations, most Americans do not remember vaccine preventable deaths and have never known anyone disabled from illnesses like smallpox, measles, rubella, whooping cough, or polio.

— Dr. Marianne Parshley, Hartford Courant, 10 Aug. 2026
American forces have also disabled 2 ships and boarded 2 to endure compliance, according to the statement on Sunday.

— Anniek Bao, CNBC, 10 Aug. 2026

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