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Empower

🔄 Synonyms of "Empower"

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WordDefinition
endowverb(transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
endueverbSenses relating to giving some quality or thing.
giftnounSomething given to another voluntarily, without charge.
indueverbDated form of endue. [Senses relating to covering or putting on.]
investverbTo spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.

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WordDefinition
giftverb(transitive) To give as a gift or donation.
endowverb(transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
investverbTo spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in.
indueverbDated form of endue. [Senses relating to covering or putting on.]
endueverbSenses relating to giving some quality or thing.
permittingverbUsed in an absolute clause to indicate that the statement modified by the clause (typically an expression of intent) will only be fulfilled if not impeded by the noun.
allowverb(transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to.
permitverb(transitive) To allow (something) to happen, to give permission for.
authorizedExplicitly allowed.
enablingnounAn act or an instance of something being enabled.
enableverbTo 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.
authorizeverb(transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.
accountableObliged, when called upon, to answer (for one’s deeds); answerable.
affordverbTo incur, stand, or bear without serious detriment, as an act which might under other circumstances be injurious; (usually after an expression of ability, as could, able, difficult) to be able or rich enough; to spare.
authorizationnoun(uncountable) The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission.
mandatedrequired, mandatory
conferverb(transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow.
assistverbTo help.
giveverb(ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere.
helpverb(transitive) To provide assistance to (someone or something).

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