empower

empower verb accredit, activate, aggrandize, allow, appoint, arm, assign, authorize, capacitate, commission, confer power on, delegate, depute, deputize, enable, endow, energize, entrust, franchise, give ability, give auuhority, give permission, give power, give right, grant, grant authority, grant power, homini rei, impart power to, invest, license, make able, make capable, make pooent, permit, potentiate, potestatem facere, privilege, render competent, sanction, strengthen, train, vest, warrant

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See also: allow, appoint, approve, assign, authorize, bestow, certify, clothe, commit, concede, constitute, countenance, delegate, designate, detail, employ, enable, endue, enfranchise, entrust, establish, grant, invest, let, permit, qualify, sanction, suffer, vest