"disempower" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From dis- + empower.",
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      "form": "disempowering",
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      "word": "deenergize"
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      "english": "morphologically similar but (by idiomatic accident) refers semantically only to electrical power, not social power",
      "word": "depower"
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      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "power down"
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      "word": "power off"
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          "word": "empower"
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        {
          "word": "hearten"
        },
        {
          "word": "inspire"
        },
        {
          "word": "motivate"
        }
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          "ref": "1990, Editors: Tim Brighouse and Bob Moon, Managing the National Curriculum, Harlow: Longman Group UK Ltd, page 97",
          "text": "A powerful head can sometimes disempower the teaching staff, and create among them a sort of passivity that is close to inertia."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To strip power from (someone or some group), as:",
        "To remove morale or self-confidence from (someone or some group) to do something."
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          "morale",
          "morale"
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          "word": "dishearten"
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          "word": "dispirit"
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          "word": "demoralize"
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          "word": "demotivate"
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          "word": "enervate"
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          "word": "empower"
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        {
          "word": "establish"
        },
        {
          "word": "install"
        }
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          "text": "The reformation disempowered the established church and thus roiled the aristocracy.",
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        "To strip power from (someone or some group), as:",
        "To remove authority or (official) confidence from (someone or some group) to do something (such as administer a state function), as by demoting, disestablishing, or unincorporating a group."
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          "authority",
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          "confidence",
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        [
          "demoting",
          "demote#Verb"
        ],
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          "disestablishing",
          "disestablish#Verb"
        ],
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          "unincorporating",
          "unincorporate#Verb"
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      "rhymes": "-aʊə(ɹ)"
    }
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  "word": "disempower"
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      "english": "morphologically similar but (by idiomatic accident) refers semantically only to electrical power, not social power",
      "word": "depower"
    },
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      "word": "power down"
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      "word": "power off"
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          "word": "empower"
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          "word": "hearten"
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        {
          "word": "motivate"
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          "ref": "1990, Editors: Tim Brighouse and Bob Moon, Managing the National Curriculum, Harlow: Longman Group UK Ltd, page 97",
          "text": "A powerful head can sometimes disempower the teaching staff, and create among them a sort of passivity that is close to inertia."
        }
      ],
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        "To strip power from (someone or some group), as:",
        "To remove morale or self-confidence from (someone or some group) to do something."
      ],
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          "morale",
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          "word": "dishearten"
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          "word": "dispirit"
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          "word": "demotivate"
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        {
          "word": "enervate"
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        {
          "word": "establish"
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        "To remove authority or (official) confidence from (someone or some group) to do something (such as administer a state function), as by demoting, disestablishing, or unincorporating a group."
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          "power",
          "power"
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          "authority",
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          "confidence",
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          "demoting",
          "demote#Verb"
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          "disestablishing",
          "disestablish#Verb"
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        [
          "unincorporating",
          "unincorporate#Verb"
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  "word": "disempower"
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