empowers
Gives someone strength
Empowers means to give someone authority, capability, or confidence.
A law might empower an agency to regulate an industry.
A manager empowers employees by granting decision-making authority.
In softer usage, empowers suggests boosting someone's sense of capability: The program empowers women to start their own businesses.
This psychological sense has become common in self-help and corporate language, sometimes to the point of overuse.
Grant formal permission
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
- sovereigntySupreme independent authority
governance · autonomy · self-determination · agency · control · command · leadership · executive
Stir to action
- encourageUrge forward with support
- energizeSupply with vitality
- galvanizeStimulate into action
- motivateCause to act
activate · mobilize · rally · uplift · confidence · self-esteem · belief · affirm
Supply with necessities
- facilitateMake something easier
- capacitateMake fit or able
- enableMake something feasible
- provisionPreparatory supply or clause
resource · tool · skill · train · educate · access · opportunity · unlock
Make stronger against threat
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- self-relianceDepending on oneself alone
- independenceFreedom from external control
- assertivenessConfident self-expression quality
backbone · courage · tenacity · grit · determination · resolve · self-efficacy · self-worth
authorize
Grant formal permission
- delegateEntrust authority to another
- mandateFormal authoritative directive
- jurisdictionLegal authority's scope
sovereignty · governance · autonomy · self-determination · agency · control · command · leadership · executive · legislative
inspire
Stir to action
motivate · activate · mobilize · rally · uplift · confidence · self-esteem · belief · affirm · validate
equip
Supply with necessities
- facilitateMake something easier
- capacitateMake fit or able
- enableMake something feasible
provision · resource · tool · skill · train · educate · access · opportunity · unlock · capability
fortify
Make stronger against threat
- resilienceCapacity to recover quickly
- self-relianceDepending on oneself alone
- independenceFreedom from external control
assertiveness · backbone · courage · tenacity · grit · determination · resolve · self-efficacy · self-worth · dignity
- encouragementencourage, encouraging, praises, hang in there, supports
- decentralizationdecentralized, distribute, spread, disperse, scatter
- mental actionsthinks, considers, understands, perceives, recognizes
empowersdisempowers
Removes ability to act
weakens · incapacitates · debilitates · cripples · undermines
empowersforbids
Officially disallows something
disallows · prohibits · bars · bans · disenfranchises
empowersoppresses
Governs through harsh control
demoralizes · subjugates · dominates · enslaves · discourages
- women empowermentAdvancing females' rights and influence
- female empowermentWomen claiming their power
- empower womenEnable female advancement
- women's empowermentAdvancing female autonomy
- personal empowermentCultivating one's own agency
empower, empowered, empowering, empowerment, disempower, disempowered, empowerments, disempowerment, disempowering