enable

Verb

Verb Forms: enabled, enabling, enables

• To make possible or practicable; to give ability or means.
• 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"
• 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.
• To affirm; to make firm and strong.
• To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
• To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
• To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
• To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
• To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

Examples

• A well-placed ’S’ can ENABLE multiple word extensions on the board.
• His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.

Synonyms

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

Antonyms

disable