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en·a·ble (?-n??b?l)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.American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.enable (?n?e?b?l) vb (tr) 1. to provide (someone) with adequate power, means, opportunity, or authority (to do something)2. to make possible3. (Electronics) to put (a digital electronic circuit element) into an operative condition by supplying a suitable input pulse en?ablement n en?abler nCollins English Dictionary ? Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014en?a?ble (?n?e? b?l) v.t. -bled, -bling. 1. to make able; provide with means, ability, or opportunity: A scholarship enabled her to attend college. 2. to make possible or easy: Lack of witnesses enabled him to get away with the crime. 3. to authorize; empower: documents enabling them to enter the building. 4. to make ready; equip (often used in combination): Web-enabled cell phones. [1375?1425] en?a?bler, n. Random House Kernerman Webster’s College Dictionary, © 2010 K Dictionaries Ltd. Copyright 2005, 1997, 1991 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved.allow – permit – let – enableAllow, permit, and let are all used to say that someone is given permission to do something, or is not prevented from doing something. Permit is a formal word.Allow and permit are followed by an object and a to-infinitive clause.You can say that people are not allowed to do something or are not permitted to do something.You can also say that something is not allowed or that it is not permitted.Let is followed by an object and an infinitive without to.You don’t usually use ‘let’ in the passive. Don’t say, for example, ‘She was let go to the party’.Don’t confuse any of these words with enable. To enable someone to do something means to give them the opportunity to do it. It does not mean to give them permission to do it.