DISENFRANCHISE Synonyms: 22 Similar and Opposite Words

disenfranchise

verb

Definition of disenfranchise

as in to disqualify

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Recent Examples of disenfranchise That these Americans tend to be lower income and often nonwhite is just an extra for MAGA, which would love to specifically disenfranchise these constituencies. — New York Daily News Editorial Board, New York Daily News, 26 July 2026 Opponents say the measure would disenfranchise voters, particularly those who are low-income or people of color. — Kevin Breuninger, CNBC, 16 July 2026 The North Carolina legislature's recent efforts to disenfranchise Black voters through gerrymandering and voter identification laws are nothing if not the grandchildren of the grandfather clause. — CBS News, 12 July 2026 The Supreme Court handed down a decision in April that gutted a key provision of the Voting Rights Act meant to remedy efforts to disenfranchise minority voters. — ABC News, 2 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for 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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Even when Putin purged Russia’s defense ministry for corruption, including much of Shoigu’s own personal network, Putin transferred Shoigu to a weighty role in the Security Council rather than disempower him.

— Julian G. Waller, Foreign Affairs, 7 Aug. 2026
Eliminating that district to disempower those voters was, apparently, not.

— Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026

Definition of disempower

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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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