enfranchise
verb
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noun
Synonyms & Antonyms for enfranchise
Synonyms
discharge, disenthrall (also disenthral), emancipate, enlarge, free, liberate, loose, loosen, manumit, release, spring, unbind, uncage, unchain, unfetter
Antonyms
bind, confine, enchain, fetter, restrain
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The Fifteenth Amendment, which enfranchised black men, was part of a calculation meant to produce more Republican voters. — Jelani Cobb, The New Yorker, "The Supreme Court Just Legitimized a Cornerstone Element of Voter Suppression," 3 July 2019 One reason is because women in Massachusetts were not enfranchised until the 19th Amendment was ratified. — Ysabelle Kempe, BostonGlobe.com, "Why Mass. is often overlooked role in the suffrage movement," 27 June 2019 Of course, this move was not applicable to all women; for example, Native American women were not fully enfranchised in Utah until 1956, as a result of a ruling in Utah’s Supreme Court. — Kate Kelly, Teen Vogue, "Why the United States Constitution Needs An Equal Rights Amendment," 29 Oct. 2018 The two-year exercise of making Dust also succeeded in helping Wright feel re-enfranchised with co-writing again. — Gary Graff, Billboard, "Adam Wright Spins Dark Revenge Tale on 'Billy, Get Your Bike': Premiere," 22 June 2018 Republicans say the integrity of the process demands ensuring that only the eligible vote, while Democrats say that voter fraud is practically nonexistent and that the goal should be to enfranchise all who are eligible. — The Washington Post, OregonLive.com, "Supreme Court upholds Ohio's purges of its voter rolls," 11 June 2018 The bishop was a keen defender of English Jews, who were enfranchised by an act of Parliament in 1753, only to see the act repealed a year later amid anti-Semitic public protest. — Jason Farago, New York Times, "‘Jacob and His Twelve Sons’: Zurbarán’s Biblical All-Stars," 14 Mar. 2018 If slavery has been destroyed merely from necessity, let every class be enfranchised at the dictation of justice. — Paul Ortiz, Time, "One of History's Foremost Anti-Slavery Organizers Is Often Left Out of the Black History Month Story," 31 Jan. 2018 The shift could enfranchise almost 8m young voters in time for the next general election, which is expected in 2023. — The Economist, "Malaysia’s callow government has not kept its vows on civil liberties," 19 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'enfranchise.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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enfranchise
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