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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
- 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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