enable
/ɪˈneɪ.bəl/
To make somebody able; to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to; To qualify or approve for some role or position
- he/she/it
- enables
- past participle
- enabled
Meanings
- 1
To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to
Her large income enables her to go to Paris every year.
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His position enabled him to do so.
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- 2
To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for
- 3
To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like
- 4
To affirm; to make firm and strongrare
- 5
To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behaviorrare
- 6
To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulserare
- 7
To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device)rare