Word Meanings - ENFRANCHISE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon. 2. To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman. 3.

Additional info about word: ENFRANCHISE

1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power. Bacon. 2. To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman. 3. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words. I. Watts.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ENFRANCHISE)

• Affranchise
• Free
• liberate
• enfranchise
• manumit
• qualify
• open
• Emancipate
• Liberate
• rescue

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of ENFRANCHISE)

• endanger
• imperil
• betray
• surrender
• abandon
• expose

Related words: (words related to ENFRANCHISE)

• EXPOSER
  One who exposes or discloses.
• RESCUER
  One who rescues.
• EXPOSEDNESS
  The state of being exposed, laid open, or unprotected; as, an exposedness to sin or temptation.
• BETRAYAL
  The act or the result of betraying.
• EXPOSE
  1. To set forth; to set out to public view; to exhibit; to show; to display; as, to expose goods for sale; to expose pictures to public inspection. Those who seek truth only, freely expose their principles to the test, and are pleased to have them
• QUALIFY
  1. To make such as is required; to give added or requisite qualities to; to fit, as for a place, office, occupation, or character; to furnish with the knowledge, skill, or other accomplishment necessary for a purpose; to make capable, as of an
• ABANDON
  To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against. Syn. -- To give up; yield; forego; cede; surrender;
• SURRENDER
  To yield; to render or deliver up; to give up; as, a principal surrendered by his bail, a fugitive from justice by a foreign state, or a particular estate by the tenant thereof to him in remainder or reversion. (more info) 1. To yield to the power
• SURRENDEROR
  One who makes a surrender, as of an estate. Bouvier.
• RESCUE
  To free or deliver from any confinement, violence, danger, or evil; to liberate from actual restraint; to remove or withdraw from a state of exposure to evil; as, to rescue a prisoner from the enemy; to rescue seamen from destruction. Had I been
• ENDANGERMENT
  Hazard; peril. Milton.
• AFFRANCHISEMENT
  The act of making free; enfranchisement.
• ABANDONER
  One who abandons. Beau. & Fl.
• EMANCIPATE
  To set free from the power of another; to liberate; as: To set free, as a minor from a parent; as, a father may emancipate a child. To set free from bondage; to give freedom to; to manumit; as, to emancipate a slave, or a country. Brasidas .
• BETRAYMENT
  Betrayal. Udall.
• IMPERIL
  To bring into peril; to endanger.
• MANUMIT
  To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave. "Manumitted slaves." Hume.
• ABANDONEE
  One to whom anything is legally abandoned.
• ABANDONEDLY
  Unrestrainedly.
• BETRAY
  1. To deliver into the hands of an enemy by treachery or fraud, in violation of trust; to give up treacherously or faithlessly; as, an officer betrayed the city. Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men. Matt.
• DELIBERATELY
  With careful consideration, or deliberation; circumspectly; warily; not hastily or rashly; slowly; as, a purpose deliberately formed.
• DELIBERATE
  1. Weighing facts and arguments with a view a choice or decision; carefully considering the probable consequences of a step; circumspect; slow in determining; -- applied to persons; as, a deliberate judge or counselor. "These deliberate fools."
• DISQUALIFY
  1. To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act. My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift.
• OVEREXPOSE
  To expose excessively; specif. ,
• INDELIBERATE
  Done without deliberation; unpremeditated. -- In`de*lib"er*ate*ly, adv.