Enable and Make

Enable

Enable verb - To make able or possible.

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Make and enable are semantically related in be topic. In some cases you can use "Make" instead a verb "Enable".

Nearby Words: enabled, enabling

Make verb - To bring into being by combining, shaping, or transforming materials.

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Enable and make are semantically related in be topic. Sometimes you can use "Enable" instead a verb "Make".

Nearby Words: makeup, making, maker

character	enable character	make character
people	enable people	make people
use	enable use	make use
music	enable music	make music
Other words: escape, sacrifice, weapons, sounds.

Although they didn't make it an integral part of the game, this would explain why there's a cheat to enable only grapple power-ups (all the other power-up cheats simply enable only one brick color).

Source: Video Game / LEGO Racers
Hunters make their money from jungle monsters, and generally move about the map to enable ganks.

Source: Video Game / Dawngate
Parodied in xkcd: The magic shoes enable the wearer to outrun death itself and make them immortal... but they have those creepy individual toes.

Source: Blessed With Suck / Web Comics

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