enfranchised 1 of 2

adjective

as in empowered

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enfranchised

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verb

past tense of enfranchise
as in freed
to set free (as from slavery or confinement) in a way, modern labor-saving appliances enfranchised people, giving them much more leisure time

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enfranchised
  1. empowered
  2. freed
  3. democratic
  4. liberated
  5. released
  6. emancipated
  7. rescued
Adjective
  • Workers who feel more empowered are more likely to share resources with others, making a company more nimble.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 5 June 2026
  • There’s little precedent for our federal government to prosecute crimes of the empowered elite.
    — Voice of the People, New York Daily News, 4 June 2026
Definition of empowered
Verb
  • Zarrab, who was born in Iran but was moved to Turkey with his family as a toddler, was initially arrested in 2013 as part of a sweeping anticorruption probe overseen by Turkish law enforcement officials — but he was quickly freed.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 14 July 2026
  • Khanna said he and his team were ultimately freed after communication between the US Embassy and a high-level official in the Israeli government.
    — Kaanita Iyer, CNN Money, 11 July 2026
Definition of freed
Adjective
  • Ahead of a challenging midterm election, Republicans have seized an opportunity to castigate their opponents as extremists after democratic socialists won recent Democratic congressional primaries in New York and Colorado.
    — Eduardo Cuevas, USA Today, 11 July 2026
  • This is a nonprofit with a mission to strengthen American democracy with better civic participation and support of democratic institutions.
    — John Werner, Forbes.com, 11 July 2026
Definition of democratic
Verb
  • Her parents arrived in America with her older sister in 1947 after getting liberated from Auschwitz concentration camp and losing most of their family in the Holocaust.
    — Michelle L. Quinn, Chicago Tribune, 11 July 2026
  • When the United States invaded the Philippines during the Spanish-American War, Twain naively imagined that the country would be liberated and turned into a republic.
    — Ron Chernow, The Atlantic, 2 July 2026
Definition of liberated
Verb
  • In a blistering statement released after Wednesday’s vote, the mayor’s office blasted the commission and longtime Chair Robb Pitts, who recently lost his reelection bid to former Commissioner Mo Ivory.
    — Shaddi Abusaid, AJC.com, 16 July 2026
  • Video released by Iranian state media shows patients being evacuated from Shahid Baghaei Hospital in Iran’s southwestern city of Ahvaz on Wednesday.
    — Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 16 July 2026
Definition of released
Verb
  • In 1775, his first enslaver sold him to the commander of Framingham's Minute Men, who emancipated him, and Salem went on to fight at Lexington and Concord.
    — Catherine Messier, The Providence Journal, 4 July 2026
  • The long shadow of the occupation Twenty-three years after George Bush and Tony Blair resolved that Iraqis were to be emancipated, the country remains captive to a masquerade of power.
    — Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026
Definition of emancipated
Verb
  • The crew was rescued by local authorities after escaping in a lifeboat, the vessel’s Company Security Officer (CSO) told the maritime organization Sunday morning local time.
    — CNN Money, CNN Money, 12 July 2026
  • Summer campers rescued Friday’s drenching rains washed away roads around Camp Taum Sauk, trapping children and staffers at the site in the small southeastern community of Lesterville, according to Sgt.
    — Hallie Golden, Los Angeles Times, 11 July 2026
Definition of rescued
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