Empower










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Empower \Em*pow"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Empowered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Empowering.]

1. To give authority to; to delegate power to; to commission;
to authorize (having commonly a legal force); as, the
Supreme Court is empowered to try and decide cases, civil
or criminal; the attorney is empowered to sign an
acquittance, and discharge the debtor.
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2. To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities
to. "These eyes . . . empowered to gaze." --Keble.
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3. to enable or permit; to give more opportunity for
independent action.
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empower
v 1: give or delegate power or authority to; "She authorized her
assistant to sign the papers" [syn: empower, authorise,
authorize]

2: give qualities or abilities to [syn: endow, indue,
gift, empower, invest, endue]
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empower

bevollmächtigen; ermächtigen; befähigen
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46 Moby Thesaurus words for "empower":
accredit, arm, assign, authorize, certificate, certify, charge,
charter, clothe, clothe with power, commission, commit, consign,
delegate, depute, deputize, detach, detail, devolute, devolve,
devolve upon, enable, endow, endue, enfranchise, entitle, entrust,
franchise, give in charge, give official sanction, give power,
invest, legalize, legitimize, license, mission, patent, post,
privilege, ratify, sanction, send out, transfer, validate, vest,
warrant



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