enable
- to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to; authorize: This document will enable him to pass through the enemy lines unmolested.
- to make possible or easy: Aeronautics enables us to overcome great distances.
- to make ready; equip (often used in combination): web-enabled cell phones.
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empower, facilitate, implement, permit, license, prepare, fit, invest, warrant, commission, qualify, let, approve, sanction, ready, endow, condition, accredit, capacitateExamples from the Web for enable
Contemporary Examples of enable
“There was great reception,” Drew jokes, adding that perhaps he and his girlfriend, a fellow workaholic, enable each other.
Even if their oxygen masks had deployed, there is a microphone in the masks to enable them to send a distress call.
And do we not yearn to do as they did: enable America to “find its ‘greatness’ again”?
The object should be to strengthen the Negro family so as to enable it to raise and support its members as do other families.
Maybe they enable thinking by letting us watch as our looking gets disabled.
Historical Examples of enable
Again she fell upon her knees, and prayed God to enable her.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
What was there in life that could enable one to forget it faster?
DustMr. and Mrs. Haldeman-Julius
This hole is to enable the syrup to penetrate the inside of the lemons.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various BranchesEliza Leslie
Call them yours, if you enable me to spend to-night in your place with Marcolina.
Casanova's HomecomingArthur Schnitzler
I don't want to know any more about you than will enable me to do what I can for you.
The Greater InclinationEdith Wharton
enable
- to provide (someone) with adequate power, means, opportunity, or authority (to do something)
- to make possible
- to put (a digital electronic circuit element) into an operative condition by supplying a suitable input pulse