Empower: alternatives and connections

To fix with power or firmness; to establish; to mark out.

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To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill.

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To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.

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To overspread the surface of (one thing) with another; as, to cover wood with paint or lacquer; to cover a table with a cloth.

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To give a title to; to affix to as a name or appellation; hence, also, to dignify by an honorary designation; to denominate; to call; as, to entitle…

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Solemn or ceremonious ratification; an official act of a superior by which he ratifies and gives validity to the act of some other person or body; es…

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Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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To clothe with authority, warrant, or legal power; to give a right to act; to empower; as, to authorize commissioners to settle a boundary.

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To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to f…

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To invest.

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Anything given; anything voluntarily transferred by one person to another without compensation; a present; an offering.

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To put on, as clothes; to draw on.

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To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

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