enfranchise
verb
[ ɪnˈfran(t)ʃʌɪz ]
• give the right to vote to.
Similar:
give voting rights to,
give the vote to,
give suffrage to,
grant suffrage to,
grant franchise to,
• free (a slave).
Similar:
emancipate,
liberate,
free,
set free,
release,
empower,
unchain,
unyoke,
unfetter,
unshackle,
naturalize,
grant citizenship to,
confer citizenship on,
manumit,
affranchise,
disenthral,
citizenize,
Origin:
late Middle English (formerly also as infranchise ): from Old French enfranchiss-, lengthened stem of enfranchir, from en- (expressing a change of state) + franc, franche ‘free’.
