EMPOWERS

Verb

empowers

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of empower

Anagrams

• empowres

Source: Wiktionary


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.

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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