disenfranchise

English

disenfranchise (third-person singular simple present disenfranchises, present participle disenfranchising, simple past and past participle disenfranchised)

(transitive) To deprive someone of a franchise, generally of the right to vote.
- 2020 November 7, Chelsea Janes, “Kamala Harris, daughter of Jamaican and Indian immigrants, elected nation’s first female vice president”, in Washington Post‎:
  Harris’s victory comes 55 years after the Voting Rights Act abolished laws that disenfranchised Black Americans, 36 years after the first woman ran on a presidential ticket and four years after Democrats were devastated by the defeat of Hillary Clinton

to deprive someone of a franchise, generally their right to vote

Czech: odebrat (cs) hlasovací právo (cs)
Finnish: riistää äänioikeus (right to vote)
German: das Wahlrecht entziehen, vom Wahlrecht ausschließen
Greek:
Ancient: ἀτιμόω (atimóō), ἄτιμον καθίστημι (átimon kathístēmi), ἀποψηφίζομαι (apopsēphízomai)

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