disempower
/dis-em-pou-er/US // ˌdɪs ɛmˈpaʊ ər //UK // (ˌdɪsɪmˈpaʊə) //
丧失权力,剥夺权力,失权,丧失能力
Definitions
v.有主动词 verb
- 1
- : to deprive of influence, importance, etc.: Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.
Examples
This, critics say, is what happens when you disempower the police, remove them from dominion over any and everything in a geographic area.
He and other Republicans are cynically using the rhetoric of disempowerment to stoke a sense of victimization in conservative voters to justify actual efforts to disempower countless others through voter suppression.
He could use the filibusterproof reconciliation process to cut all of its spending, and effectively disempower the legislation.
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