Driven vs Enable - What's the difference?
driven | enable |
Obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.
(of snow) Formed into snowdrifts by wind.
To give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.
* 1611 , King James Bible , "1 Tim. i. 12"
To make able (to do, or to be, something); to confer sufficient power upon; to furnish with means, opportunities, and the like; to render competent for; to empower; to endow.
* 1711 , October 13, (Joseph Addison), (The Spectator) , number 195
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, title= To allow a way out or excuse for an action.
As verbs the difference between driven and enable
is that driven is while enable is to give strength or ability to; to make firm and strong.As an adjective driven
is obsessed; passionately motivated to achieve goals.driven
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* demand-driven English adjectives ending in -en English irregular past participles ----enable
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(enabling) (enabl)- Who hath enabled me.
- Temperance gives Nature her full play, and enables her to exert herself in all her force and vigor.
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