Bar
Enable
Enable verb - To give official or legal power to.
Usage example: a law that would enable the authorities to use wiretaps without obtaining court orders
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Guild Wars has the mesmer profession which has access to a selection of "steal" skills, which enable them to use a random skill from the enemy's bar for 20 seconds.
Source: Power Copying -
A later patch added a second method to enable a burst, which revolves around filling the Drama bar through getting hit by non-Blockbuster attacks during a combo.
Source: Combo Breaker - Action Commands: In the first game, this appears as the Charge meter, where holding down the A button will fill up the bar and letting go at the "sweet spot" (represented by a dark red/brown spot on the bar) will enable more powerful effects.
Source: Video Game / Blue Dragon
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Enable and Bar. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/bar/enable
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