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Disempowering

adj, verb

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Causing a loss of power or agency; debilitating.

    "On the contrary, Bernstein argues, by presenting a benevolent face to students while failing to change the underlying rules of pedagogic discourse, progressive pedagogies may be potentially more disempowering for students because they mask the workings of oppression and hence make it harder for students to name and usurp it."

  2. 2
    Demoralizing.

    "Losing the ability to work was very disempowering."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of disempower form-of, gerund, participle, present

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