Definitions
1.verbTo 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.
2.verbTo affirm; to make firm and strong.
3.verbTo qualify or approve for some role or position; to render sanction or authorization to; to confirm suitability for.
4.verbTo 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"
5.verbTo imply or tacitly confer excuse for an action or a behavior."His parents enabled him to go on buying drugs."
6.verbTo put a circuit element into action by supplying a suitable input pulse.
7.verbTo activate, to make operational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).