transitive verb enabled -·bled, enabling -·bling

1. 1. to make able; provide with means, opportunity, power, or authority financial aid enabled Lou to attend college
   2. to authorize, allow, or permit legislation enabling free trade, software enabling computer network access
2. to make possible or effective; specif., to make possible or support the dysfunctional behavior of (someone), as by denying it exists or compensating for it in some way