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What is the verb for capacity?

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capacitate
  1. (transitive) To make capable.
  2. (transitive, zoology) To alter sperm to allow it to fertilize eggs.
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    1. “At present it is unclear whether international NGOs on balance strengthen and capacitate or marginalise and decapacitate domestic.”
      “Is it, that men have life in them first, to capacitate them to eat the flesh and drink the blood of the Son of Man?”
      “No doubt labor will capacitate us, but it is the blood that entitles us, to enjoy the rest.”
capacitates
  1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of capacitate
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    1. “An understanding of how one of these techniques capacitates sperm may be useful in understanding the others.”
      “That we have this distinctive function capacitates us to be philosophers, and that we can philosophize about the infinite and the absolute capacitates us to be theologians. ”
      “And we may be assured that divine grace, which capacitates for the first act of self-denial, is sufficient, in its more copious communications, for every possible exigency. ”
capacitated
  1. simple past tense and past participle of capacitate
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    1. “Cathine also stimulated the production of cAMP in uncapacitated sperm whilst inhibiting it in capacitated sperm.”
      “Estimate of a piece of art given by a capacitated person working for a Voluntary Sales company, an auctioneer office or Drouot-Estimations.”
      “In order to do be able to do this, they must be capacitated to be fully involved in work already being carried out.”
capacitating
  1. present participle of capacitate
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    1. “As more young people than ever before live in the world, on the eve of events that will affect them during their whole lives, capacitating and involving young people in the response to climate change is crucial.”
      “Promoting partnerships could constitute a way for reaching and capacitating grass roots organisations to get actively involved in the development process.”
      “It was suggested that serious effort should, therefore, be made in line with the observation in the paper, for a review of the PAP Protocol with a view to giving the PAP legislative competence and capacitating it.”
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