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Definition

to make possible

in various senses, including:

to give someone the ability, knowledge, or authority to do something — as in "The study will enable an informed discussion."
to activate a computer system for use — as in "You can enable the feature in the Settings Page."
to permit someone to repeat bad behavior, so they reinforce the bad pattern — as in "I don't want to enable her drug addiction."

The test enables earlier identification of autism.

enables = makes possible

We hope the law will enable consumers to better understand loan expenses.

enable = make possible

The microchip enables blind people to see furniture and even recognize faces.
She showed her father how to enable voice-controlled texting on his phone.
When enough years had gone by to enable us to look back on them, we sometimes discussed the events leading to his accident.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

enable = make it possible for

The tunnel enabled him to get from the barn to his hiding place under the pig trough without coming out into the open.
E. B. White -- Charlotte's Web

enabled = allowed (made it possible for)

Its termination the feeble light did not enable us to see.
Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado

enable = make it possible

A few more details, enabling the listener to repeat his version in turn, then nothing to talk about until The Maycomb Tribune appeared the following Thursday.
Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird

enabling = making it possible for

Still lost in his cabalistic dreams, Akibe Drummer had discovered a verse in the Bible which, interpreted in terms of numerology, enabled him to predict that the deliverance war: due within the coming weeks.
Elie Wiesel -- Night

enabled = made it possible [for]

Gulden heaved up again, and the movement enabled Kells to pull out the knife.
Zane Grey -- The Border Legion
In words, Jack Cardinal has enabled this place to survive forever.
David Baldacci -- Wish You Well
The fact that you were given protection, and your specific abilities, enabled you to defend your ground, so to speak.
Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
Although the version seemed unlikely to them, they did not have any information enabling them to replace it with the true one.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -- One Hundred Years of Solitude
But at last it began to shred away lazily, and by the end of another quarter-hour the land was clear and our curiosity was enabled to satisfy itself.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
I will write a letter of recommendation for you that will enable you to attend and graduate from any college in the country.
Pat Conroy -- The Lords of Discipline
And yes, I saw everything that you saw; my gifts enable me to see what others normally cannot.
Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
My Saint-Bernard-brute followed me to the enclosure every night, and his vigilance enabled me to sleep at times in something like peace.
H.G. Wells -- The Island of Dr. Moreau
At least, he enabled her to produce life, though he was fifty and she past forty when the son was born.
William Faulkner -- Light in August
We thank Thee that our people have been given the gift of freedom, enabling them to rise from the ashes of ruin and be reborn ....
John Hersey -- Hiroshima
Her money has enabled Belky to build a one-bedroom house in Honduras.
Sonia Nazario -- Enrique's Journey

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