All 3 Uses of "enable" in "A Long Way Gone"

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enable
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A Long Way Gone
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To this day, I have an excellent photographic memory that enables me to remember details of the day-to-day moments of my life, indelibly.†
p. 51.8

enables = makes possible
One day during his trickery, a small pig saw the hunter biting a plant that enabled him to return to his human form.†
p. 53.9 *

enabled = made possible
When I was six, my grandfather had inserted a medicine into my skin that protected me from snakebite and enabled me to control snakes.†
p. 54.4

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(1) (enable)
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."
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)