disfranchises

verb

present tense third-person singular of disfranchise
as in shuts out

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disfranchises
  1. shuts out
  2. prevents
  3. holds back
  4. excludes
  5. blocks
  6. hinders
  7. denies
  8. discourages
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  • The birthplace criterion also shuts out key figures of the Harlem Renaissance — including Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes and Louis Armstrong — who were born in the American South and moved to New York as part of the Great Migration.
    — Harmeet Kaur, CNN Money, 10 June 2026
  • Northgate edges Case Grande in baseball semifinal, shuts out Salesian to advance to softball final.
    — Nathan Canilao, Mercury News, 28 May 2026
Definition of shuts out
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  • Clear information gives everyone a fair chance to ask questions and prevents resentment from filling in the missing details.
    — Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 7 Sep. 2026
  • In perhaps the coolest reversal in the show thus far, the Lanterns are attacked with guns that produce darkness, which manifests here as smoke but prevents them from seeing or creating light constructs.
    — Siddhant Adlakha, Vulture, 7 Sep. 2026
Definition of prevents
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  • Samsung traditionally holds back one color in the Galaxy S range to be a web exclusive and drive consumers to its website, although typically this is one of the standard black or grey colors.
    — Ewan Spence, Forbes.com, 30 May 2026
  • The hydropower from Glen Canyon Dam that holds back Lake Powell serves more than 350,000 homes.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 8 May 2026
Definition of holds back
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  • Displaying inventory from multiple suppliers side by side makes the full cost of a booking easier to evaluate than a single quote viewed in isolation, particularly when one rate excludes an insurance product that another includes.
    — Matthew Kayser, USA Today, 31 Aug. 2026
  • Wells Fargo also excludes customers who have closed an account within the past 12 months.
    — Dan Avery, CNBC, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of excludes
Verb
  • Some told the Miami Herald that the ruling blocks the path to asylum and that the cases cannot be evaluated in a vacuum.
    — Syra Ortiz Blanes, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Stopgap spending bill passes House The House voted yesterday to pass a stopgap government-funding bill that temporarily blocks the White House’s proposal to give political appointees more control over federal research grants.
    — Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 2 Sep. 2026
Definition of blocks
Verb
  • For example, Otto’s research has shown that, in yeast, having extra copies of every gene hinders the organism’s ability to adapt to the common antifungal medication nystatin.
    — Carrie Arnold Contributing, Quanta Magazine, 2 Sep. 2026
  • True commitment allows strategies to develop and succeed, as indecision hinders progress.
    — Benjamin Laker, Forbes.com, 21 Aug. 2026
Definition of hinders
Verb
  • Israel, which isn’t a party in the proceedings, strongly denies that its actions amount to acts of genocide.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 7 Sep. 2026
  • The Carlson-Vance partnership has generated more conservative blowback over the past few years as Carlson has progressed from skepticism of Israel into anti-Semitism, which Carlson denies.
    — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 5 Sep. 2026
Definition of denies
Verb
  • Couple that with the effort required to turn it, and its unnecessarily large size, and you’re left with a vehicle that paradoxically can hold its own in the twisties, but almost discourages you from finding out how well.
    — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 2 Sep. 2026
  • Culturally, college football scratches the human itch for tribalism, which America’s ethos of individualism fortunately discourages.
    — George F. Will, Washington Post, 28 Aug. 2026
Definition of discourages
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