empowers
- 1Third-person singular simple present of empower.
The scholarship empowers young women to pursue careers in science.
Knowing your legal rights empowers you to push back against unfair treatment.
Note
This is the form a single third-person subject takes (a law, a scholarship, she), while I, you, we and they take plain empower. Both meanings of the verb come with it, and both need an object: something empowers someone. One grants authority (the statute empowers the court to act); the other builds confidence or control over one's own life. Either way, a to-infinitive commonly follows the object.
empowers is a form of empower
empower, verb: To give someone greater confidence and strength to act, often by increasing their control over their own life or situation. Full entry
- Forms
- empowerempowers he/she/itempowering -ing formempowered past tense, past participle
- Spelling
- empower → empowers: add -s
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