disempower

American  

[dis-em-pou-er] / ˌdɪs ɛmˈpaʊ ər /

verb (used with object)

1. to deprive of influence, importance, etc..

   Voters feel they have become disempowered by recent political events.

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disempower British  

/ ˌdɪsɪmˈpaʊə /

verb

1. (tr) to deprive (a person) of power or authority

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Other Word Forms

• disempowerment noun

Etymology

Origin of disempower

First recorded in 1805–15; dis- ¹ + empower

Example Sentences

I think that’s part of court reform, because in order to disempower the court, you need to reinvigorate the institutions that will be empowered.

From Slate

I think you raise a really important point that if you disempower the court, you are, by necessity, re-empowering other institutions of government.

From Slate

“Framing and executing laws that disempower local people, engineering demographic change, gagging media and seizing resources, all as a means of establishing peace and an approach to problem-solving is the way of the current dispensation,” said Farooq who heads the region’s main separatist grouping the All Parties Hurriyat Conference.

From Washington Times

Food and Agriculture Organization called for transformative changes to the formal and informal social systems that disempower women who work on farms and in the food sector around the world.

From Salon

"No member states should use AI to censor, constrain, repress or disempower people," he told the council.

From Reuters