Vocabulary
Disenfranchised
English and Urdu gloss, synonyms and antonyms, and example usage from our editorial sentence cache where available.
English meaning
Deprived of some right, privilege or immunity, especially deprived of the right to Vote.
Urdu meaning
محروم ، استصواب کرنا
Example sentences (from Dawn)
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- The exclusion of officially trusted Aadhaar and voter ID cards from the list of valid documents for SIR is said to expose large sections ofthe Muslim, backward and Dalit communities to the risk of being disenfranchised.
- Thus, the elitist state has, for ages now, `abandoned` the masses millions of jobless, underpaid, landless, homeless, marginalised, disenfranchised and caste-religion-gender-battered people.
- In fact, there is widespread trepidation amongst GB`s youth and seasoned political campaigners that they are being further disenfranchised.
- It existed so that the voiceless the disappeared, the dispossessed, the disenfranchised could be heard even when they lacked the strength to shout.
- Rule by proxies when the people are feeling disenfranchised will not deliver anything positive.
Synonyms
Coerce, Deprive, imprison
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