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disempowering

verb

present participle of disempower
as in disabling

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  1. disabling
  2. forbidding
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  • When Urich was young, his father suffered a disabling stroke; Netanyahu became a father figure to him.
    — Ruth Margalit, New Yorker, 19 Sep. 2026
  • Special Needs Plans are for people with certain chronic or disabling conditions, as well as those who are eligible for both Medicare and Medi-Cal and people who live in nursing homes or require the same level of care.
    — Sacbee.com, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2026
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  • The filmmaker contrasts her bucolic nature scenes with shots of the giant ships passing by and the interiors and exteriors of the factories located near the island, belching smoke and lit up at night like a forbidding theme park.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 17 Sep. 2026
  • Some saw the other cheaters get away with it and concluded the prompt forbidding cheating had no teeth—that there wouldn’t be any punishment for cheating.
    — Jeremy Kahn, Fortune, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of forbidding
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“Disempowering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disempowering. Accessed 28 Sep. 2026.

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