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    [Verb]  | "en*able" | \ i-ˈnā-bəl \


    1: to provide with the means or opportunity

    2: to make possible, practical, or easy

    3: to cause to operate


    Origin: 15th century ;

    [Verb]  | "enable" 


    1: to make able or possible;


      * e.g., " ... my new glasses enable me to read the fine print "





    2: to give official or legal power to;


      * e.g., " ... a law that would enable the authorities to inspect food preparation areas for health code violations "





     [ "enable" ]

    1: to encourage bad behavior, habits, etc.

      * e.g.,  ... Erin's parents enable her and her brother by giving them cigarettes just after he had just quit smoking. If you're a smoker or have other addictions and have parents like hers, don't count on quitting because they will just lure you back into your old addictions. 

     [ "enable" ]

    1: to shit on someone with a large dose of self esteem.

      * e.g.,  ... Boss: I'm going to enable reps to take collections on cancelled accounts. 


     [ "enable" ]

    2: modern, fits category of politically correct, or newspeak

      * e.g.,  ... All: Yessum 

     [ "enabler" ]

    1:  Tacit Enabler - Supports another's bad habits by staying silent.

      * e.g.,  ...  Bob: Hey Mike, I'm gonna go to the bar, slip a little something into some bitch's drink and fuck her rotten in the bathroom! 


     [ "enabler" ]

    2:  Overt Enabler - Supports another's bad habits by providing assistance such as money, transportation, approval, etc...

      * e.g.,  ... Mike, the Tacit Enabler: (Noncommital grunt) 


     [ "enabler" ]

    3: A person who supports another person's bad or dangerous habits.

      * e.g.,  ...  Bob: Hey Mike, I gotta bring this crack over to that father of four. Give me a lift? 


     [ "enabler" ]

    4: Enablers tend to fear calling others on their destructive habits because these "others" tend to be friends, family or others close to the enabler.

      * e.g.,  ... Mike, the Overt Enabler: ...Yeah, hold on. 


     [ "enabler" ]

    5: Thus, rather than risk losing the love, respect, friendship or contact with the person, the enabler chooses instead to play it safe and watch the other slowly destroy themselves or others through their own actions.

     [ "Enabling" ]

    1: Shielding a person from the consequences of a destructive behavior; Allowing a person's destructive behavior to persist by managing or minimizing the ill-effects of the behavior. "Enabling" vs. "Empowering" Enabling: supporting a person's behavior that (repeatedly/habitually) instigates a negative or destructive result Empowering: supporting a person's ability or effort in a positive or progressive endeavor

      * e.g.,  ... Enabling can be as destructive as the behavior itself . . . a person enabling a destructive behavior is motivated by their need to do so and is gratified by reinforcing their superiority or control over that person; An "enabler" holds a person in an inferior state by denying them the motivation to change and therefore, the opportunity to grow. 

     [ "enableable" ]

    1: Having the capability to be enabled.

      * e.g.,  ... There are three enableable buttons on my dashboard, but at the moment they cannot be depressed. 

     [ "enabler" ]

    1: someone who will assist and/or defend another person, usually a friend or family member, in their psychotic behavior; for the sole purpose of being needed to get their asses out of trouble so they can hold it over their heads and bitch about it forever.

      * e.g.,  ... Brenda is such an enabler, she likes to bitch about what addict kids she has to her friends/family, though she's the one that provided the drugs. 

     [ "enableable" ]

    1: Hyperbole misnomer for the absence of restraint to transfer an object identified by its non-enabled qualities to a complementary condition.

      * e.g.,  ... Yo bro! This light in ma' room is enableable. 

     [ "Enabled" ]

    1: Less-retarded version for triggered, because that's for normies.

      * e.g.,  ... Andsam: I fully support how Bright was made, possibly the best film of 2017 and all of you can fuck off 

     [ "enabled" ]

    1: The opposite of someone who is disabled. This is an able-bodied person who manipulates the system to get out of working, being a responsible parent, and a productive citizen.

      * e.g.,  ... Paul: My great uncle's V.A. benefits continue to get cut. He literally eats a can of beans for dinner to save for gas money to drive 83 miles each way to the V.A. hospital each week! Meanwhile, his neighbor - an able-bodied fuck - has never worked, has the government pay for his kid's daycare, gets free bus passes that he throws away, sells his EBT benefits for weed, and brags about how he rips off the government that he hates!! 

     [ "enablers" ]

    1: Enablers are people how start & finish the party. Usualy its a ghetto puggy drug dealer or a white slam puppy girl. They usualy get everyone fucked up and then laught about it later. There names are usualy Moe & fee but names can change.

      * e.g.,  ... why do fee & moe always got people fucked up?? because they are enablers 

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