Thesaurus: enfranchise

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1. v. t. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
2. 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.
3. v. t. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.
4. v. grant freedom to; as from slavery or servitude
5. v. grant voting rights
6. 1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon. 2. 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. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.
7. v:100 v. grant voting rights