EMPOWER

empower, authorise, authorize

(verb) give or delegate power or authority to; “She authorized her assistant to sign the papers”

endow, indue, gift, empower, invest, endue

(verb) give qualities or abilities to

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Verb

empower (third-person singular simple present empowers, present participle empowering, simple past and past participle empowered)

(transitive) To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.

(transitive) To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.

Synonyms

• (give permission to): allow, let, permit

• (give confidence to): inspire

Antonyms

• (give permission to): ban, bar, forbid, prohibit

• (give confidence to): disempower, dishearten, disspirit

Anagrams

• empowre

Source: Wiktionary

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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.

2. To give moral or physical power, faculties, or abilities to. "These eyes . . . empowered to gaze." Keble.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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