disfranchise
disfranchise verb: to deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise.
Verb
disfranchise (third-person singular simple present disfranchises, present participle disfranchising, simple past and past participle disfranchised)
- To deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise.
- Jewish culture, the product of a small, oppressed, and disfranchised dwindling and scattered minority.1929, Abraham Zevi Idelsohn, Jewish Music: Its Historical Development, page 175
disfranchise meaning in Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
disfranchise in Urdu
- حق رائے دہی چھیننا
disfranchise in Bengali
- কাউকে কোনো সুবিধা থেকে, মতাধিকার হরণ করা
disfranchise in Kannada
- ಹಕ್ಕು ತೆಗೆ, ಹಕ್ಕು ಕಳೆ, ನಾಗರಿಕಹಕ್ಕನ್ನು ತೆಗೆ, ಪ್ರಾತಿನಿಧ್ಯ ತಪ್ಪಿಸು, ಓಟಿನ ಹಕ್ಕನ್ನು ಕಸಿದುಕೊಳ್ಳು, ಮತದಾನದ ಹಕ್ಕು ಕಿತ್ತುಕೊ
Forms of disfranchise
| third-person singular present | disfranchises |
|---|---|
| present participle | disfranchising |
| past participle | disfranchised |
| past | disfranchised |
Origin of disfranchise
From dis- + franchise.
Words formed from disfranchise
Questions about disfranchise
- What does disfranchise mean?
- Disfranchise means to deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise.
- What is disfranchise in Urdu?
- Disfranchise in Urdu is حق رائے دہی چھیننا. See Disfranchise meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is disfranchise?
- Disfranchise is a verb.
- What is the past tense of disfranchise?
- The past tense of disfranchise is disfranchised.
Words near disfranchise in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disfranchise (page history and authors); disfranchise (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disfranchise (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disfranchise (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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