Enable and Help

Enable

Enable verb - To make able or possible.

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Help and enable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Help" instead a verb "Enable".

Nearby Words: enabled, enabling

Help verb - To provide (someone) with what is useful or necessary to achieve an end.

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Enable and help are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Enable" instead a verb "Help".

Nearby Words: helpful, helped, helpless, helper, helping

person	enable person	help person
character	enable character	help character
hero	enable hero	help hero
people	enable people	help people
Other words: someone, rest, characters, fight, escape, player, humans, players.

He built Astro with an Adaptive Ability that would enable him to "evolve" into the world's most powerful robot, and keeps throwing dangerous situations at him to help the evolution along.

Source: Anime / Astro Boy
Playing duets with the Lokomos help restore the Spirit Tracks, which enable you to go to new areas.

Source: Songs in the Key of Lock
It helps that the UK, US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand have numerous military (and non-military) treaties and agreements that help to enable this trope.

Source: Bash Brothers

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