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Empowers
To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
📖 Definitions of "Empowers"
verb
- 1
To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
- 2
To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
"John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations."
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Empowers"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |
| investverb | To spend money, time, or energy on something, especially for some benefit or purpose; used with in. |
| indueverb | Dated form of endue. [Senses relating to covering or putting on.] |
| endueverb | Senses relating to giving some quality or thing. |
| affordsverb | To 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. |
| allowsverb | (transitive, catenative) To permit, to give permission to. |
| authorisesverb | Non-Oxford British English standard spelling of authorize. [(transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to.] |
| authoritynoun | (uncountable) Power or right to make or enforce rules, give orders, or impose obligation; or a position having such power or right. |
| authorizationsnoun | (uncountable) The state of being authorized to do something or to be somewhere; formally granted permission. |
| authorizesverb | (transitive) To grant (someone) the permission or power necessary to do (something); to permit; to sanction or consent to. |
| bestowsverb | To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord; to render. |
| confersverb | (transitive) To grant as a possession; to bestow. |
| enableverb | 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. |
| enablesverb | 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. |
| endowsverb | (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. |
| enhancesverb | To augment or make something greater. |
| entitlesverb | To give a title to. |
| givesverb | (ditransitive) To move, shift, provide something abstract or concrete to someone or something or somewhere. |
| grantsnoun | A city, the county seat of Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. |
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