enable

verb

1. 1

   To make somebody able (to do, or to be, something); to give sufficient ability or power to do or to be; to give strength or ability to.

2. 2

   To affirm; to make firm and strong.

3. 3

   To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.

4. 4

   To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.

   “April 16, 2018, Norimitsu Onishi and Selam Gebrekidan writing in The New York Times, ‘They Eat Money’: How Mandela’s Political Heirs Grow Rich Off Corruption”

5. 5

   To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.

   “His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.”

6. 6

   To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.

7. 7

   To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).