Enfranchise /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Enfranchised; p. pr. & vb. n. Enfranchising

1. To set free; to liberate from slavery, prison, or any binding power.
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; to give the right to vote.
3. To receive as denizens; to naturalize; as, to enfranchise foreign words.