[{"word":"enables","phonetics":[],"meanings":[{"partOfSpeech":"verb","definitions":[{"definition":"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.","synonyms":["empower","endow"],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To affirm; to make firm and strong.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.","synonyms":["authorize","let","permit"],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.","synonyms":["allow"],"antonyms":[],"example":"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"},{"definition":"To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[],"example":"His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs."},{"definition":"To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.","synonyms":[],"antonyms":[]},{"definition":"To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).","synonyms":["activate","turn on"],"antonyms":["disable"]}],"synonyms":["activate","turn on","allow","authorize","let","permit","empower","endow"],"antonyms":["disable"]}],"license":{"name":"CC BY-SA 3.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"},"sourceUrls":["https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enable","https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/enables"]}]