Definition of "disenfranchise" [dis•en•fran•chise]

• To disfranchise. (verb-transitive)

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• "Barack Obama is in Florida to raise money from voters whom he has worked hard to disenfranchise from the Democratic Party’s nomination process."
• "Libya's new government "will by definition disenfranchise religious minorities" and women."
• "Didn't Clinton herself agree to "disenfranchise" the voters of MI and FL in the fall of 2007?"