disenfranchise

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disenfranchise — 動詞

  • disenfranchisepresent simple I / you / we / they
  • disenfranchiseshe / she / it
  • disenfranchisedpast simple
  • disenfranchising-ing form

1. to formally strip an individual or community of legal rights — most often the ab

1.動詞及物C1
釋義

剝奪權利

正式取消投票權或政治發言權

to formally strip an individual or community of legal rights — most often the ability to vote in elections — so that they lose their voice in political or institutional decisions.

例句

Strict new voter-ID rules in the southern states disenfranchised thousands of elderly Black residents.

南方各州嚴格的新選民身分規定，剝奪了數千名年長黑人居民的投票權。

transitive: disenfranchise + [group of people]

Renata wrote a long essay arguing that prison sentences should not disenfranchise people for life.

Renata 寫了一篇長文，主張刑期不應該讓人終身失去投票權。

common object: [people] for [duration]

常見搭配
  • disenfranchise voters
  • disenfranchise a minority
  • feel disenfranchised
  • systematically disenfranchise
同義詞
  • disfranchise

    exact variant spelling, slightly more formal and legal in tone

  • marginalize

    broader — push to the edges of society or decision-making; need not involve formal rights

  • exclude

    general; covers everyday social or institutional exclusion, not specifically rights

反義詞
  • enfranchise

    direct opposite — grant the vote or formal rights to

  • empower

    broader opposite — give someone the means or authority to act

文法句型

disenfranchise + [person/group]

be disenfranchised (passive)

用法筆記

Subject is usually a law, policy, institution, or political action — not an individual person. Frequently passive ('be/feel disenfranchised'), especially in the extended sense of feeling powerless or excluded from the system, even when no actual legal right has been taken away.

常見錯誤

My boss disenfranchised me at the meeting.
My boss excluded me at the meeting.
'disenfranchise' refers to removing formal rights or political voice, not everyday social exclusion.
The new tax disenfranchises small businesses.
The new tax disadvantages small businesses.
making something harder financially is not the same as removing legal rights.

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常用片語

  • feel disenfranchised
  • disenfranchised groups

介系詞搭配

  • from (voting / the process)