DISEMPOWERING Antonyms

• providing legal power or sanction

• giving courage or confidence or hope

• furnishing support and encouragement

• stimulating or exalting to the spirit

• imparting strength and vitality

• the act of motivating; providing incentive

• impelling to action

• becoming stronger

• the act of increasing the strength of something

• the act of bearing the weight of or strengthening

• furnishing support and encouragement

• capable of bearing a structural load

• the rise of something

• the activity of contributing to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose

• (sports) the act of enabling another player to make a good play

• give help or assistance; be of service

• act as an assistant in a subordinate or supportive function

• work for, or be a servant to

• give encouragement to

• give or delegate power or authority to

• give qualities or abilities to

• make strong or stronger

• enclose by or as if by a fortification

• prepare oneself for a military confrontation

• add nutrients to

• add alcohol to (beverages)

• the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child

• helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community

• help develop, help grow

• look after a child until it is an adult

• provide with nourishment

• give or delegate power or authority to

• give qualities or abilities to

• heighten or intensify

• supply the inspiration for

• serve as the inciting cause of

• spur on or encourage especially by cheers and shouts

• fill with revolutionary ideas

• draw in (air)