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CAPACITATE

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make capable

Example:

This instruction capacitates us to understand the problem

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "capacitate" is one way to...):

dispose; qualify (make fit or prepared)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

capacity (capability to perform or produce)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "capacitate" is one way to...):

change (undergo a change; become different in essence; losing one's or its original nature)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Sense 3

Meaning:

Make legally capable or qualify in law

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "capacitate" is one way to...):

qualify (pronounce fit or able)

Domain category:

jurisprudence; law (the collection of rules imposed by authority)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Derivation:

capacity (capability to perform or produce)

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