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disfranchised

disfranchised is the simple past and past participle of disfranchise.

Meaning of disfranchise

Verb

disfranchise (third-person singular simple present disfranchises, present participle disfranchising, simple past and past participle disfranchised)

  1. (transitive) 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

Words formed from disfranchised

Questions about disfranchised

What is disfranchised the simple past and past participle of?
Disfranchised is the simple past and past participle of disfranchise.

Words near disfranchised in the dictionary

  1. disforming
  2. disformities
  3. disformity
  4. disforms
  5. disfranchise
  6. disfranchised
  7. disfranchisement
  8. disfranchisements
  9. disfranchiser
  10. disfranchisers
  11. disfranchises

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Adapted from Wiktionary: disfranchised (page history and authors); disfranchise (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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