enable

Meaning of enable

verb
  1. To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.
  2. To affirm; to make firm and strong.
  3. To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
  4. To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
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  5. To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
    His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.
  6. To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
  7. To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

Information about enable

  • It is a verb.
  • The plural form of enable is: enables.
  • Languages ​​in which enable is used:

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Hyphenation of enable

en-able

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • enable is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

enable synonyms

Meaning :

empower, endow, authorize, let, permit, allow, activate

enable antonyms

Meaning :

disable

Translation of enable

Anagrams of enable

baleen

Words that rhyme with enable

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