Definition of "enfranchise" [en•fran•chise]

• To bestow a franchise on. (verb-transitive)
• To endow with the rights of citizenship, especially the right to vote. (verb-transitive)
• To free, as from bondage. (verb-transitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Along with helping "enfranchise" Florida and Michigan Democratic voters (I voted in the Florida primary so I don't feel I was disenfranchised), I hope Senator Clinton will also repudiate racism in the President primary, as well as sexism. wsu for obama"
• "Depends on whether she manages to talk the Democratic Party into changing the rules -- retroactively -- to "enfranchise" Florida and Michigan by recertifying their delegates."
• "Vertical and Diamond cut a special deal to specifically target and "enfranchise" direct market comic book shops, by offering them a limited edition of Vertical's most important release of 2008."