verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise. transitive

   "Jewish culture, the product of a small, oppressed, and disfranchised dwindling and scattered minority."

2. 2
   deprive of voting rights wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

degradedisenfranchisedisenfranchisedominatedowngradeenslave

Example

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"Jewish culture, the product of a small, oppressed, and disfranchised dwindling and scattered minority."

Etymology

From dis- + franchise.

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