enfranchise

enfranchise is a 11-letter English word with 5 senses as transitive verb and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Face value is 19 in Scrabble and 21 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

11 letters · Scrabble 19 · Words With Friends 21 · 5 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
2. transitive verb. 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.
3. transitive verb. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.
4. verb. grant voting rights
5. verb. grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude

   "Slaves were enfranchised in the mid-19th century"

   Synonyms: affranchise

Synonyms

affranchise

Common word forms

enfranchised, enfranchiser, enfranchises, enfranchising, enfranchisement

Words from these letters

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