disfranchise

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Since Pickering thinks the youngsters got it right, his solution is to disfranchise the geezers:

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 28, 2016

Whom he can and will support Senator Johnson did not say but few of his followers expected him to disfranchise himself election day.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then she asked the question, 'What were "disfranchise" mean?'

From Time Magazine Archive

In fact, Smith's ruling passion is to disfranchise all monopolies that concentrate and protect hoarded capital.

From Time Magazine Archive

Wilkes anticipated the Reform Bill of a later time by proposing to disfranchise the rotten boroughs, and to give members in their stead to the counties and to the more populous and wealthy towns.

From History of the English People, Volume VIII Modern England, 1760-1815 by Green, John Richard