disfranchise

Verb

Meaning

To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular privilege, as of voting, holding office, etc.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

disenfranchise bate subject chain capture dominate bind degrade voiceless suspend deprive compel preclude depose coerce
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Antonyms

enable deliver discharge qualify invest rid
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Hypernyms

deprive

Derivatives

disfranchised disfranchising

Examples

He believed that he would not succeed in passing legislation to disfranchise illiterate whites who already had the vote. Source: Internet

Beginning in the 1940s, when the courts started taking the first steps to recognize the voting rights of black voters, the Alabama legislature took several counter -steps designed to disfranchise black voters. Source: Internet

In the border states and North, blacks continued to exercise the vote; the well-established Maryland African-American community defeated attempts there to disfranchise them. Source: Internet

They enforced this by a combination of violence, late 19th-century laws imposing segregation and a concerted effort to disfranchise African Americans. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

disformal disformally disformity disfranchised disfranchisement disfranchiser