disenfranchise
C1CEFR level
65/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General verb
To deprive someone of a right, especially the right to vote.
The new identity requirements risked disenfranchising thousands of voters who had no passport or driving licence.
Law verb
To deprive a shareholder of the right to vote.
Failure to disclose the interest disenfranchised the holder in respect of the relevant shares.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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