Enable

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity; make able: a hole in the fence that enabled us to watch; techniques that enable surgeons to open and repair the heart.
  • v. To make feasible or possible: funds that will enable construction of new schools.
  • v. To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to: a law enabling the new federal agency.
  • v. To make operational; activate: enabled the computer's modem; enable a nuclear warhead.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
  • v. 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.
  • v. To allow a way out or excuse for an action.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
  • v. 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.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To make able; furnish with adequate power, ability, means, or authority; render competent.
  • To put in an efficient state or condition; endow; equip; fit out.
  • Synonyms To empower, qualify, capacitate.
  • To give ability or competency.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. render capable or able for some task
  • Antonym
    disable   
    Verb Form
    enabled    enables    enabling   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    change    modify    alter   
    Cross Reference
    Hyponym
    equip    invest    gift    endow    endue    indue    empower   
    Form
    re-enable    enablement    reenable    enabler   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    empower    endow   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abel    Cable    Gable    Mabel    Mable    Sable    able    cable    chaebol    disable