Meaning

• 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.

• To affirm; to make firm and strong.

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

• 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"

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

  "His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs."

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

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