Empower

Quick meaning: Empower is a verb meaning (transitive) To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (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.

Example Sentences

John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.

Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things.

This side of the training is effective in empowering employees to make better decisions on site, and helps to improve employee retention.

Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.

Word Forms

• empowers
• empowering
• empowered
• empowre

Synonyms for empower

Depending on context, synonyms include allow, let, permit, inspire, endow, endue.

Antonyms for empower

Common opposites include ban, bar, forbid, prohibit, banish, criminalize.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gift, endow, invest, indue, endue, permitting.

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