enabling

transitive verb enabled, enabling

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