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词汇 disempower
释义 disempower
verb[ T ]
uk /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈpaʊər/ us /ˌdɪs.ɪmˈpaʊ.ɚ/
to take away someone's confidence and feeling of being in control of their life: 削弱…的力量;削弱…的自信心
Empowering women doesn't mean disempowering men.赋予女性权力并不意味着剥夺男性的权力。
A powerful head can sometimes disempower the teachers.一个强势的上司有时候会让老师失去自信。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Discouraging and putting off
aversive
dampen someone's enthusiasm
dampen someone's spirits
dampener on something
daunt
deter
deterrence
deterrent
discourage
discouragement
disheartening
dishearteningly
disincentive
emasculate
emasculation
pour/throw cold water on somethingidiom
spoke
take the wind out of someone's sailsidiom
throw cold water on somethingidiom
unencouraging

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disempower
This is because innovation in techniques of discipline (for example, control of labour) and production will empower some agents and disempower others.
In many cases the researchers will then need to ask how the categories chosen bias the research, and empower or disempower the groups involved.
Deliberative arrangements potentially undermine clientelism but also disempower representative institutions.
Thus, we have a responsibility toward vulnerable patients to ensure that we do not disempower them through our own negativities.
The self-development strategy can as easily disempower as empower.
Nevertheless, the boundaries within can be used for anti-democratic ends, can be used to exclude women, the young, or landless people from the franchise, to disempower the inconvenient.
The authors explore the multiple dimensions of disempowerment and empowerment and show how ideology, policy and practice all serve to disempower people with severe mental distress.
It is not the result of things happening without anyone knowing but of deliberate decisions to disempower local government.
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I cannot wait for the other place to be disempowered.
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It is about disempowering local communities and undermining true financial accountability.
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The problem will certainly never be solved by the type of 'world government' proposed in the report, which will further disempower both people and states.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
The nation-states must not let themselves be incapacitated or disempowered when it comes to fundamental rights.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Those outsiders must always be wary of disempowering the parties on which the future depends.
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They will be considerably disempowered.
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It suggested that many people felt excluded and disempowered by the existing planning arrangements and that resulting frustration could also have a negative effect on people's health and well-being.
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