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Endanger vs Empower - What's the difference?

endanger | empower |

In lang=en terms the difference between endanger and empower

is that endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to while empower is to give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.

As verbs the difference between endanger and empower

is that endanger is to put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to while empower is to give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.

endanger

English

Alternative forms

* endaunger (obsolete) * indanger

Verb

(en verb)
  • To put (someone or something) in danger; to risk causing harm to.
  • * 1593, William Shakespeare, Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • I hold him but a fool that will endanger / His body [in a duel] for a girl that loves him not
  • * Burke
    • All the other difficulties of his reign only exercised without endangering him.
  • * 1877, Louisa May Alcott, Under the Lilacs
    • If you endanger other people's life and liberty in your pursuit of happiness, I shall have to confiscate your arms, boys.
  • (obsolete) To incur the hazard of; to risk; to run the risk of.
  • * Francis Bacon
    • He that turneth the humours back endangereth malign ulcers.

    Synonyms

    * See also

    empower

    English

    Alternative forms

    * empowre (archaic) * impower (archaic) * impowre (obsolete)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To give permission, power, or the legal right to do something.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1985, author=William H. Tench, title=Safety is no accident
    • , passage=Regulations have been made under the Civil Aviation Acts of 1949, 1980 and 1982 which empower Inspectors of Accidents to do these things.}}
  • To give someone more confidence and/or strength to do something, often by enabling them to increase their control over their own life or situation.
    • It's not enough to give women and minorities equal rights on paper; they need to be empowered to be able to make use of these rights.
    John found that starting up his own business empowered him greatly in social situations.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1992, author=Nick Logan, title=The Face, page=11-130
    • , passage=Musically, what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects, using natural magic to change people's neurological states and to psychologically empower them.}}

    Synonyms

    * (give permission to) allow, let, permit * (give confidence to) inspire

    Antonyms

    * (give permission to) ban, bar, forbid, prohibit * (give confidence to) disempower, dishearten, disspirit

    Derived terms

    * empowerment