About The Word Enable

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Enable

Enable Meaning & Definition
Enable Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Enable?

[v] render capable or able for some task; "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Enable:

Related Terms | Find terms related to Enable: accredit | adapt | adjust | agree to | aid | allow | approve | arm | assent to | assign | assist | attune | authorize | capacitate | certificate | certify | charter | clothe | clothe with power | commission | condition | delegate | depute | deputize | empower | endow | endue | enfranchise | entitle | entrust | equip | expedite | facilitate | fit | franchise | furnish | give official sanction | give power | go along with | help | invest | legalize | legitimize | let | license | make possible | OK | okay | patent | permit | prepare | privilege | put in trim | put in tune | qualify | ratify | ready | sanction | suit | tune | validate | warrant

See Also | alter | change | empower | endow | endue | equip | gift | indue | invest

Enable In Webster's Dictionary

\En*a"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Enabled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Enabling}.] 1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [Obs.] ``Who hath enabled me.'' --1 Tim. i. 12. Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. --Jer. Taylor. 2. To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow. Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. --Addison.

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