enable

Academic Word List, sublist 5.

About 19.75 uses per million words.

Meaning

verb 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.
verb To affirm; to make firm and strong.
verb To qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
verb To yield the opportunity or provide the possibility for something; to provide with means, opportunities, and the like.
verb To imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior.
His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs.
verb To put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
verb To activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).