Definitions for enable

enable en·a·ble

Spelling: [en-ey-buh l]
IPA: /ɛnˈeɪ bəl/

Enable is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 90 anagrams from letters in enable (abeeln).

Definitions for enable

verb (used with object)

  1. to make able; give power, means, competence, or ability to; authorize:
  2. to make possible or easy:
  3. to make ready; equip (often used in combination):

Origin of enable

Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at en-1, able

Examples for enable

Maybe they enable thinking by letting us watch as our looking gets disabled.

Again she fell upon her knees, and prayed God to enable her.

“There was great reception,” Drew jokes, adding that perhaps he and his girlfriend, a fellow workaholic, enable each other.

I don't want to know any more about you than will enable me to do what I can for you.

Call them yours, if you enable me to spend to-night in your place with Marcolina.

Even if their oxygen masks had deployed, there is a microphone in the masks to enable them to send a distress call.

This hole is to enable the syrup to penetrate the inside of the lemons.

What was there in life that could enable one to forget it faster?

The object should be to strengthen the Negro family so as to enable it to raise and support its members as do other families.

And do we not yearn to do as they did: enable America to “find its ‘greatness’ again”?

Word Value for enable
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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