empower
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empower (third-person singular simple present empowers, present participle empowering, simple past and past participle empowered)
- (transitive) To give permission or power to do something.
- 1985, William H. Tench, Safety is no accident:
- Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things.
- 1985, William H. Tench, Safety is no accident:
- (transitive) Abstractly, to give the confidence to do something.
- John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.
- 1992, Nick Logan, The Face, page 11-130:
- Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.
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- (give permission to): ban, bar, forbid, prohibit
- (give confidence to): disempower, dishearten, disspirit
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to give permission to
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to give confidence to
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