Enable Definition

ĕ-nābəl
enabled, enables, enabling
verb
enabled, enables, enabling
To make able; provide with means, opportunity, power, or authority.
Financial aid enabled Lou to attend college.
Webster's New World
To authorize, allow, or permit.
Legislation enabling free trade, software enabling computer network access.
Webster's New World
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.
Webster's New World
To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to.
A law enabling a new federal agency.
American Heritage
To activate (a device, a software function or feature, etc.)
Webster's New World
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Origin of Enable

  • en- +‎ able

    From Wiktionary

Enable Sentence Examples

  • I'll ride over on horseback to enable a quick escape if needed, she insisted.

  • There was enough material there to enable him to prepare several new tricks which he had learned from some of the jugglers in the circus, and he had passed part of the night in getting them ready.

  • To enable trains to be transferred from one pair of rails to another pair, as from the main line to a siding, " points " or " switches " are provided.

  • The above-named acts enable the Board of Trade to take all the necessary steps to ensure that the safety of passenger trains is sufficiently guarded.

  • This will enable you to have it serviced if something goes wrong.

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ELEBLE

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6 Letter Words6 Letter Words Starting With E6 Letter Words Ending With E