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empowered
CIDE DICTIONARY
empowered, adj.
- invested with legal power or official authority especially as symbolized by having a scepter. [WordNet 1.5]
- enabled or permitted; as, the women's liberation movement empowered wives to take more control of their own lives. [PJC]
THESAURUS
empowered
absolute, ascendant, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, chartered, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, controlling, dominant, duly constituted, eminent, enfranchised, entitled, ex officio, franchised, governing, great, hegemonic, hegemonistic, imperative, important, influential, leading, licensed, mighty, momentous, monocratic, official, patented, potent, powerful, preeminent, prestigious, privileged, prominent, puissant, ranking, ruling, sanctioned, senior, substantial, superior, supreme, totalitarian, warranted, weightyFor further exploring for "empowered" in Webster Dictionary Online