Empower vs. Enable — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Empower and Enable
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Empower
Give (someone) the authority or power to do something
Members are empowered to audit the accounts of limited companies
Enable
To supply with the means, knowledge, or opportunity (to do something); make able
A hole in the fence that enabled us to watch.
Techniques that enable surgeons to repair the heart.
Empower
To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority.
Enable
To make feasible or possible
Funds that will enable construction of new schools.
Empower
To equip or supply with an ability; enable
"Computers ... empower students to become intellectual explorers" (Edward B. Fiske).
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Enable
To give legal power, capacity, or sanction to
A law enabling a new federal agency.
Empower
(transitive) To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
Enable
To make operational; activate
Enabled the computer's modem.
Enable a nuclear warhead.
Empower
(transitive) To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.
Enable
To behave in a manner that facilitates or supports (another's abusive, addictive, or self-destructive behavior).
Empower
To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission; to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an acquittance, and discharge the debtor.
Enable
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.
Empower
To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to.
Enable
To affirm; to make firm and strong.
Empower
To enable or permit; to give more opportunity for independent action.
Enable
To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
Empower
Give or delegate power or authority to;
She authorized her assistant to sign the papers
Enable
To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
Empower
Give qualities or abilities to
Enable
To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.
Enable
(electronics) To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
Enable
To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
Enable
To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
Receive the Holy Ghost, said Christ to his apostles, when he enabled them with priestly power.
Enable
To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
Enable
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
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