Empower
WordNet

verb


(1)   Give or delegate power or authority to
"She authorized her assistant to sign the papers"
(2)   Give qualities or abilities to
WiktionaryText

Verb



  1. To give permission or power to do something.
      1. Abstractly, to give the confidence to do something.
        John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.

        • Antonyms

          ban, bar, forbid, prohibit disempower, dishearten, disspirit
 
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