| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | en·a·ble |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -n  b l |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: en·a·bled, en·a·bling, en·a·bles
1a. To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity; make able: a hole in the fence that enabled us to watch; techniques that enable surgeons to open and repair the heart. b. To make feasible or possible: funds that will enable construction of new schools. 2. To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to: a law enabling the new federal agency. 3. To make operational; activate: enabled the computer's modem; enable a nuclear warhead. | | OTHER FORMS: | en·abler —NOUN
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