The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disempower \Dis`em*pow"er\, v. t.
To deprive of power; to divest of strength.
--H. Bushnell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. To remove confidence from (someone) to do something.
Usage examples of "disempower".
Thus, in all these approaches, the very attempt to liberate women disempowers them by definition.
Metaphorically, water is the unconscious, and the creature in the water is the life or energy of the unconscious, which has overwhelmed the conscious personality and must be disempowered, overcome and controlled.
Yalena could not be cajoled, coerced, or persuaded into doing anything so menial and disempowering as performing manual labor like cooking or washing dirty dishes.
Perhaps as many as one hundred of their contingent had been killed with three times that number wounded, but the Karbarrans as a species had an instinctual way with such things-a way of meeting death head on and disempowering it.