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enabling
en·a·ble E0121300 (ĕ-nā′bəl)tr.v. en·a·bled, en·a·bling, en·a·bles 1. a. 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.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 a new federal agency.3. To make operational; activate: enabled the computer's modem; enable a nuclear warhead.4. To behave in a manner that facilitates or supports (another's abusive, addictive, or self-destructive behavior). en·a′bler n.enabling (ɪnˈeɪbəlɪŋ) adjproviding the power, means, opportunity, or authority to allow someone to do somethingen•a•bling (ɛnˈeɪ blɪŋ) adj. conferring legal power or sanction, as by removing a disability: an enabling act. [1670–80] ThesaurusAdj. | 1. | enabling - providing legal power or sanction; "an enabling resolution"; "enabling power"disqualifying, disabling - depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified; "certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship" | TranslationsIdiomsSeeenableenabling
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Antonyms for enablingadj providing legal power or sanctionAntonyms |