CEFR B2

disempower

verb

Meaning

disempower means to remove confidence from (someone) to do something. It can have more than one sense, so use the alternate meanings and examples to choose the meaning that matches your sentence.

Examples

  • The lesson showed how to disempower in a natural sentence.
  • Check who or what will disempower before translating the verb.

Synonyms: demoralize, dishearten, dispirit