Synonyms for enable
ɛnˈeɪ bəlen·able

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1. enable

   Synonyms:
   empower, strengthen, qualify

   Antonyms:
   disqualify, hinder, disable

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1. enableverb

   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"

   Antonyms:
   disable, disenable, incapacitate

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1. complicit

   ivanka enables his behavior by not speaking out about it to the public. choosing to be involved.

   having complicity.

   Submitted by rinat on June 6, 2017  

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1. enableverb

   Synonyms:
   empower, qualify, capacitate, make able, make capable, render capable

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1. List of paraphrases for "enable":

   allow, activate, permit, enabling, enables, facilitate, empowers, empower, activation, empowerment, activating, help, active, allowing, afford, allows, provide, allowed, let, make, give, enabled

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1. Vincent Foster:

   Allowing the option for a modest increase in this leverage to 2:1 would enable BDCs to deploy significantly more capital to small and mid-size businesses. Simultaneously, BDCs will be able to reduce the risk in their portfolios, as they can invest in lower yielding, lower risk investments and still generate valuable returns and dividends to their shareholders.

2. Jason Crow:

   Mexico's retaliatory tariffs will hurt Coloradans, and the blame here lies squarely with President Trump and the Congressional Republicans who enable his destructive policies.

3. Ulrich Lehner:

   The confidence of the major shareholders and a joint understanding within the Supervisory Board on the strategic direction of Thyssenkrupp were the basis for my work and a pre-requisite for my promise to Berthold Beitz to successfully further develop the company in the interest of customers, employees and shareholders. This is now no longer given, i take this step consciously to enable a fundamental discussion with our shareholders on the future of Thyssenkrupp. My decision may contribute to creating the necessary awareness with all concerned parties that a break-up of the company and the related loss of many jobs is not an option – neither in the interest of the founder, nor in the interest of the country.

4. Jack Corrigan:

   Since Michael's time in government, and even before that, you've had folks in the national security community discussing how this technology could enable foreign actors, hackers, to access these systems in which they are plugged into, a lot of the discussion is kind of focused around this idea that these technologies could contain backdoors that enable foreign hackers to break into these systems and then exfiltrate data, monitor network activity, disrupt any of the services that are connected to these networks.

5. Eric Goldman:

   The whole point of section 230 is to enable sites like Reddit to allow conversations to take place, knowing that some conversations will be antisocial and in some cases illegal, section 230 says that’s not the responsibility of the service that creates the venue of those conversations.