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third-person singular simple present disenfranchises, present participle disenfranchising, simple past and past participle disenfranchised
(transitive) To deprive someone of a franchise, generally of the right to vote. quotations examples
Harris’s victory comes 55 years after the Voting Rights Act abolished laws that disenfranchised Black Americans, 36 years after the first woman ran on a presidential ticket and four years after Democrats were devastated by the defeat of Hillary Clinton
2020 November 7, Chelsea Janes, “Kamala Harris, daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, elected nation’s first female vice president”, in Washington Post