enfranchising

verb

present participle of enfranchise
as in freeing
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 enfranchising The Radical Republican Congressman Thaddeus Stevens, as Michael Waldman writes in The Fight to Vote, was even blunter than Sumner about the necessity of enfranchising Black men. — Adam Serwer, The Atlantic, 19 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enfranchising
  1. freeing
  2. liberating
  3. rescuing
  4. releasing
  5. emancipating
  6. saving
Verb
  • Where previous generations tended to stall partway, the model could carry a researcher's experiment through to the end, freeing them to run more at once.
    — Harry Booth, Time, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The extra compression zipper shrinks the bulk of everything from linen dresses to matching sets, freeing up valuable suitcase space without sacrificing organization.
    — Rosie Marder, Travel + Leisure, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of freeing
Verb
  • For Russian propagandists, the Azov Brigade, which began as a nationalist militia, was shorthand for the supposedly fascist influences from which Vladimir Putin claimed to be liberating Ukraine.
    — Joshua Yaffa, New Yorker, 10 Aug. 2026
  • By liberating real-time data flows, financial institutions can gain a single, accurate source of truth.
    — Jody Bhagat, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of liberating
Verb
  • In that version of his death, he’s killed by a knife sent flying in his direction by Bellatrix Lestrange after rescuing Harry and his friends from Malfoy Manor.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 11 Aug. 2026
  • Derrick Moore, 47, of Loganville is being hailed as a hero for rescuing the girl from a rip current.
    — Asia Simone Burns, AJC.com, 10 Aug. 2026
Definition of rescuing
Verb
  • Orbit was a member of the electronic music trio Torch Song in the early 1980s, releasing three albums on the IRS label before moving into music production, including creating the soundtrack for the 1986 hockey film Youngblood.
    — Daniel Kreps, Rolling Stone, 7 Aug. 2026
  • The office will confirm identifications and ensure proper paperwork is filed before releasing the remains back to family.
    — Allison Kiehl, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of releasing
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  • After mutual suspicion, the two arrived at a reluctant truce in which Paul was free to bring non-Jews into the Jesus movement, emancipating them from Jewish ritual, while the original Jerusalem circle continued to keep kosher, circumcise, and all the rest.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026
Definition of emancipating
Verb
  • Fazio has criticized Lamont for not saving even more to shrink this hefty debt.
    — Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The aid workers who once regularly visited her village to help pregnant women had stopped coming, after foreign aid cuts by the United States shuttered a program aimed at saving mothers’ and babies’ lives.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of saving

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