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What does disfranchise mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word disfranchise? Here's what it means.

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  1. (transitive) To deprive someone of some privilege, especially the right to vote; to disenfranchise.
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Cripling received no support whatever from his brethren, who in the subsequent March agreed not only to deprive him of his aldermanship but also to disfranchise him.
He was not afraid that at some distant period the blacks of the South would rise and disfranchise the whites.
He wanted a special commission to disfranchise such persons.
Thomas Jones dared him to combat by accusing Ministers of seeking to disfranchise Ireland by corrupt means.
The Democrats, seeing this, are now determined to disfranchise them.
Its purport is to disfranchise all the people of color who were citizens of the free states.

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