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单词 disempower
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Definition of disempower in English:

disempower

verbdɪsɛmˈpaʊədɪsɪmˈpaʊəˌdɪsəmˈpaʊər
[with object]
  • Make (a person or group) less powerful or confident.

    a scam that disempowers voters
    Example sentencesExamples
    • They have even gone as far as to suggest that state government is disempowering children by taking away their opportunity to buy junk food in school.
    • Can you comment on the way those acts disempower citizens and restrict rights many consider basic to democracy?
    • As part of her analysis, she describes birth practices of indigenous cultures to demonstrate the degree to which medicalized birth disempowers women.
    • Diplomacy, which should be the art of avoiding conflict, was already disempowered.
    • I do not accept the assertion that we are disempowering parents.
    • It is highly gratifying that the majority of the poor and disempowered Indian people have asserted themselves in this dramatic fashion.
    • Rites of degradation involve dismissing or disempowering people.
    • Eyes were removed from Egyptian statues to disempower the person they represented.
    • She supposed he was disempowered by having been in prison and at the mercy of the middle class.
    • We showed resistance at attempts to disempower us.
    • The local reaction has disempowered many young people and denied them access to self-support and to the support of others who share their concerns.
    • She resented people defending her ‘rights’ since she thought this was an excuse to destroy her profession and disempower her colleagues.
    • Secondly, the content of the article attempts to disempower women, in particular mothers, by denying that mothers have control over their bodies as well as by denying the assistance provided by midwives and other women attending births.
    • Then we can learn to exercise citizenship, break through the deference to authority which has silenced and disempowered us, and effect change.
    • Women are disempowered with modern technological birth.
    • When you continue to hear stories about how disempowered ordinary women are, particularly in our villages, you have to ask whether anything is changing.
    • That's why confronting and disempowering him is both difficult and vitally necessary.
    • The separation of arts and politics can sometimes be a false one used to disempower people and limit their consciousness.
    • The power of the ‘obesogenic environment’ is apparently such that it disempowers us from making choices over what we eat, duping us all the time into thinking that we are making choices when in fact we are just riding the junk-food wave.
    • The current geography national curriculum, it argues, is ‘adult-centred’, which marginalises and disempowers children.

Derivatives

  • disempowerment

  • noun
    • She asserts that because they lack a permanent status and associated career opportunities, they are able to reverse this disempowerment into resistance precisely because they have nothing to lose.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You need to be fervent to shift the forces of apathy and disempowerment in the global entertainment culture.
      • The lack of information about available benefits and the lack of explanation for money withheld from monthly cheques led to frustration and feelings of disempowerment.
      • As they participate with peers in the creation of self-definitions, they move from feelings of worthlessness and disempowerment to confidence and well-being.
      • So our feelings of uncertainty and disempowerment are to some degree a product of our economic policies.
 
 

Definition of disempower in US English:

disempower

verbˌdisəmˈpouərˌdɪsəmˈpaʊər
[with object]
  • Make (a person or group) less powerful or confident.

    a scam that disempowers voters
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Eyes were removed from Egyptian statues to disempower the person they represented.
    • They have even gone as far as to suggest that state government is disempowering children by taking away their opportunity to buy junk food in school.
    • The local reaction has disempowered many young people and denied them access to self-support and to the support of others who share their concerns.
    • She resented people defending her ‘rights’ since she thought this was an excuse to destroy her profession and disempower her colleagues.
    • We showed resistance at attempts to disempower us.
    • She supposed he was disempowered by having been in prison and at the mercy of the middle class.
    • The power of the ‘obesogenic environment’ is apparently such that it disempowers us from making choices over what we eat, duping us all the time into thinking that we are making choices when in fact we are just riding the junk-food wave.
    • Rites of degradation involve dismissing or disempowering people.
    • When you continue to hear stories about how disempowered ordinary women are, particularly in our villages, you have to ask whether anything is changing.
    • Women are disempowered with modern technological birth.
    • The current geography national curriculum, it argues, is ‘adult-centred’, which marginalises and disempowers children.
    • I do not accept the assertion that we are disempowering parents.
    • The separation of arts and politics can sometimes be a false one used to disempower people and limit their consciousness.
    • Can you comment on the way those acts disempower citizens and restrict rights many consider basic to democracy?
    • Then we can learn to exercise citizenship, break through the deference to authority which has silenced and disempowered us, and effect change.
    • Diplomacy, which should be the art of avoiding conflict, was already disempowered.
    • Secondly, the content of the article attempts to disempower women, in particular mothers, by denying that mothers have control over their bodies as well as by denying the assistance provided by midwives and other women attending births.
    • As part of her analysis, she describes birth practices of indigenous cultures to demonstrate the degree to which medicalized birth disempowers women.
    • That's why confronting and disempowering him is both difficult and vitally necessary.
    • It is highly gratifying that the majority of the poor and disempowered Indian people have asserted themselves in this dramatic fashion.
 
 
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