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Synonyms for enabling


Grammar : Adj
Spell : en-ey-bling
Phonetic Transcription : ɛnˈeɪ blɪŋ



Définition of enabling

Origin :
  • early 15c., "to make fit;" mid-15c., "to make able to," from en- (1) "make, put in" + able. Related: Enabled; enabling.
  • adj allowing to happen
Example sentences :
  • About five it returned, gentle enough, enabling us to head for the roadstead.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow-Line » by Joseph Conrad
  • How ungrateful of him, when you have been the means of enabling him to kick me out of the Sixth.
  • Extract from : « Follow My leader » by Talbot Baines Reed
  • Only then will they be able to make strong and enabling commitments.
  • Extract from : « Herein is Love » by Reuel L. Howe
  • These had been useful, in enabling them to keep a straight course.
  • Extract from : « At the Point of the Bayonet » by G. A. Henty
  • How grateful ought we to be to France for enabling you to do it.
  • Extract from : « The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution, Vol. VIII » by Various
  • This book was of infinite value to Rapin in enabling him to proceed with his history.
  • Extract from : « The Huguenots in France » by Samuel Smiles.
  • After that, as he had said, the wind was more favourable, enabling them to run before it.
  • Extract from : « The Eagle Cliff » by R.M. Ballantyne
  • Evolution develops the soul, enabling it to reach its goal: the divine state.
  • Extract from : « Reincarnation » by Th. Pascal
  • The farmer's capital does not act by itself, but by enabling his men to work.
  • Extract from : « The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) » by Leslie Stephen
  • The eyes are diurnal, enabling the creature to hunt only by day.
  • Extract from : « Book of Monsters » by David Fairchild and Marian Hubbard (Bell) Fairchild

Antonyms for enabling

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