enfranchise
verb🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪz/
🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪz/
[usually passive] (formal)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they enfranchise | 🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪz/ 🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪz/ |
| he / she / it enfranchises | 🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzɪz/ 🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzɪz/ |
| past simple enfranchised | 🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzd/ 🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzd/ |
| past participle enfranchised | 🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzd/ 🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzd/ |
| -ing form enfranchising | 🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzɪŋ/ 🔊/ɪnˈfræntʃaɪzɪŋ/ |
- enfranchise somebody
to give somebody the right to vote in an election 给（某人）选举权 Word Originlate Middle English (formerly also as infranchise): from Old French enfranchiss-, lengthened stem of enfranchir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + franc, franche ‘free’.