Meaning & use
capacitate
To make someone legally or physically able and qualified to do something.
See it in a sentence
The training program aims to capacitate local farmers to manage irrigation systems independently.
New legislation was passed to capacitate smaller municipalities to issue their own bonds.
A note on using this word
Capacitate is rare in everyday speech and appears mostly in legal or development writing; "enable" is the more natural everyday choice.
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Words with an opposite meaning
incapacitate
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