'Enable' definitions:
Definition of 'enable'
From: WordNet
verb
Render capable or able for some task; "This skill will enable you to find a job on Wall Street"; "The rope enables you to secure yourself when you climb the mountain" [ant: disable, disenable, incapacitate]
Definition of 'Enable'
From: GCIDE
- Enable \En*a"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enabled; p. pr. & vb. n. Enabling.]
- 1. To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong. [Obs.] "Who hath enabled me." --1 Tim. i. 12. [1913 Webster]
- Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. 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. [1913 Webster]
- Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'enable'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accredit,
- adapt,
- adjust,
- agree to,
- aid,
- allow,
- approve,
- arm,
- assent to,
- assign,
- assist,
- attune,
- authorize,
- capacitate,
- certificate,
- certify,
- charter,
- clothe,
- clothe with power,
- commission,
- condition,
- delegate,
- depute,
- deputize,
- empower,
- endow,
- endue,
- enfranchise,
- entitle,
- entrust,
- equip,
- expedite,
- facilitate,
- fit,
- franchise,
- furnish,
- give official sanction,
- give power,
- go along with,
- help,
- invest,
- legalize,
- legitimize,
- let,
- license,
- make possible,
- OK,
- okay,
- patent,
- permit,
- prepare,
- privilege,
- put in trim,
- put in tune,
- qualify,
- ratify,
- ready,
- sanction,
- suit,
- tune,
- validate,
- warrant