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enable
Meaning: to give someone the means, authority, or opportunity to do something
enable in a sentence
How enable is used in real sentences:
A small grant enabled the students to finally build their robotics project.
Because her parents enabled her to travel abroad for the summer, she finally visited the museums she had only read about.
“Precise markings on the rails enabled Mara to record every crack without touching the wall.”
— from the passage Colors Behind the Screen
Synonyms for enable
Other words for enable — permit, empower and facilitate — carry the same meaning.
Antonyms of enable
Words that mean the opposite of enable:
- prevent
- hinder
- block
Where it comes from
From Old French en- and able 'capable'
Word parts
- em/en — within/put inside
enable: en- (make) + able (capable)
Memory hook
EN (make) + ABLE — to make able to do something.