Enfranchise
[ɪn'fræn(t)ʃaɪz;en-] or [ɪn'fræntʃaɪz]
Definition
(v. t.) To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
(v. t.) To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.
(v. t.) To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.
Edited by Josie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Admit as a freeman, endow with a franchise.[2]. Free, emancipate, release, set free, make free, restore to liberty.
Typist: Owen
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Liberate, qualify,[See FRANCHISE]
ANT:Disfranchise, disqualify
Checked by Edwin
Definition
v.t. to set free: to give a franchise or political privileges to.—n. Enfran′chisement act of enfranchising: liberation: admission to civil or political privileges.
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