0 present participle of disenfranchise --
1 to take away power or opportunities, especially the right to vote, from a person or group --
Voters were required to pass a literacy test, effectively disenfranchising most of the population.
Neglecting the role (or contribution) that you had to a particular work of art is a totally disenfranchising thing that should not be forgotten.
This move created a virtually oligarchic system, disenfranchising a great majority of the citizens and provoking some unrest.
The poll tax worked in conjunction with a variety of disenfranchising measures, such as literacy tests, the white primary, and threats of violence.
I should have thought that that office was in itself sufficiently difficult, and that its problems were sufficiently wearying without his undertaking in addition, the disenfranchising a number of electors.
I expect that my noble friend would then find herself disenfranchising a number of other people who are taking care and control of and an interest in the child.
There is no question of disenfranchising these.
My reply is that he has been chosen at the cost of disenfranchising the whole of his constituency.
