All 13 Uses
enable
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The Plague
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- The present narrator has three kinds of data: first, what he saw himself; secondly, the accounts of other eyewitnesses (thanks to the part he played, he was enabled to learn their personal impressions from all those figuring in this chronicle); and, lastly, documents that subsequently came into his hands.†
Part 1enabled = made possible
- Once confirmed, they had assured him, he couldn't fail to be promoted to a grade that would enable him to live quite comfortably.†
Part 1enable = make possible
- All he desired was the prospect of a life suitably insured on the material side by honest work, enabling him to devote his leisure to his hobbies.†
Part 1 *enabling = making possible
- But this ruthless, protracted separation enabled them to realize that they could not live apart, and in the sudden glow of this discovery the risk of plague seemed insignificant.†
Part 2enabled = made possible
- For their present position enabled them to take stock of their feelings with a sort of feverish objectivity.†
Part 2
- Thus he was enabled to follow, and on a different plane, the dreary struggle in progress between each man's happiness and the abstractions of the plague-which constituted the whole life of our town over a long period of time.†
Part 2
- He then learned that the contingency was the possibility of his falling ill and dying of plague; the data supplied would enable the authorities to notify his family and also to decide if the hospital expenses should be borne by the municipality or if, in due course, they could be recovered from his relatives.†
Part 2enable = make possible
- These groups enabled our townsfolk to come to grips with the disease and convinced them that, now that plague was among us, it was up to them to do whatever could be done to fight it.†
Part 2enabled = made possible
- It enabled him to start anew each morning.†
Part 4
- He, Father Paneloux, refused to have recourse to simple devices enabling him to scale that wall.†
Part 4enabling = making possible
- This visit was to enable Rambert to introduce Gonzales to the camp commandant.†
Part 4enable = make possible
- But then I remembered that miserable owl in the dock and it enabled me to keep on.†
Part 4enabled = made possible
- For instance, in a general way he has confined himself to describing only such things as he was enabled to see for himself, and has refrained from attributing to his fellow sufferers thoughts that, when all is said and done, they were not bound to have.†
Part 5
Definitions:
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(1)
(enable) to make possiblein 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."
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)