Enable and Wreck

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Enable verb - To make able or possible.

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Wreck is an antonym for enable.

Nearby Words: enabled, enabling

Wreck verb - To cause irreparable damage to (a ship) by running aground or sinking.

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Enable is an antonym for wreck in ruin topic.

Nearby Words: wrecked, wrecker, wreckage, wrecking

people	enable people	wreck people
someone	enable someone	wreck someone
setting	enable setting	wreck setting
destruction	enable destruction	wreck destruction
Other words: plan, player, powers, weapons, ships.

At the end of Komarr, Ekaterin and her aunt are being held hostage in an airlock, partly to enable this threat and partly so Ekaterin can't get out and wreck the hostage-takers' plans again.

Source: Thrown Out the Airlock

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