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
Vest
Vest verb - To give official or legal power to.
Usage example: “By the power vested in me by the state,” intoned the minister, “I now pronounce that you are married”
Mutual synonyms
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Vest and Enable. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 14, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/enable/vest
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