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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. 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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