MEANING
To take away or deny someone's right to vote.
Use it for
Words that belong together
- disenfranchise voters
- disenfranchised citizens
On the page
The identification rule disenfranchised thousands of eligible voters.
Word forms
- Base
- disenfranchise
- Past tense
- disenfranchised
- Past participle
- disenfranchised
- Present participle
- disenfranchising
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- disenfranchise
- Present continuous
- am/is/are disenfranchising
- Present perfect
- have/has disenfranchised
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been disenfranchising
- Past
- disenfranchised
- Past continuous
- was/were disenfranchising
- Past perfect
- had disenfranchised
- Past perfect continuous
- had been disenfranchising
- Future
- will disenfranchise
- Future continuous
- will be disenfranchising
- Future perfect
- will have disenfranchised
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been disenfranchising
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: disenfranchise; disenfranchises; disenfranchised; disenfranchised; disenfranchising Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: evaluation, causation. Commonness: moderately common. Third-person singular: disenfranchises.
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