Enable

When you enable something, you make it possible for something to happen:

The new machines have enabled the company to increase production by over 20%.
Text messages enable people to keep in contact easily and cheaply.

Enable can be used in the passive voice:

As a result of the procedure, oxygen is enabled to pass into the bloodstream.

Enable is followed by direct object and the to-infinitive:

I shall always be grateful. He enabled me to have confidence in my ability to paint.
Not: … ~~enabled me have confidence~~ …