enable
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- Rhymes: -eɪbəl
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[edit] Verb
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to enable (third-person singular simple present enables, present participle enabling, simple past and past participle enabled)
- (obsolete) To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
- Who hath enabled me. 1 Tim. i. 12.
- 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.
- To allow a way out or excuse for an action.
- His parents enabled him to continue buying drugs.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
to give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong
to make able
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to allow a way out or excuse for an action
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[edit] External links
- enable in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- enable in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
[edit] Anagrams
- Anagrams of abeeln
- baleen
