disempowered

verb

past tense of disempower
as in disenfranchised

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disabled
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  • In 2024, federal agents disabled a botnet made up of hundreds of thousands of infected IoT devices associated with Flax Typhoon.
    — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Aug. 2026
  • Somebody years ago should have realized NSA Bahrain could be attacked, its air defense might fail and it could be disabled in a long war.
    — John Seiler, Oc Register, 25 Aug. 2026
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