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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.
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To affirm; to make firm and strong.
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To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
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To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
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April 16, 2018, Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan writing in The New York Times, ‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption
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To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
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His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.
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To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
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To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
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