HABILITATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does habilitate mean? 

• HABILITATE (verb)
  The verb HABILITATE has 2 senses:

1. qualify for teaching at a university in Europe

2. provide with clothes or put clothes on

  Familiarity information: HABILITATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HABILITATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they habilitate    ... he / she / it habilitates   
Past simple: habilitated   
Past participle: habilitated   
-ing form: habilitating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Qualify for teaching at a university in Europe

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Context example:

He habilitated after his sabbatical at a prestigious American university

Hypernyms (to "habilitate" is one way to...):

dispose; qualify (make fit or prepared)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Sense 2

Meaning:

Provide with clothes or put clothes on

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Synonyms:

apparel; clothe; dress; enclothe; fit out; garb; garment; habilitate; raiment; tog

Context example:

Parents must feed and dress their child

Hypernyms (to "habilitate" is one way to...):

change state; turn (undergo a transformation or a change of position or action)

Verb group:

dress; get dressed (put on clothes)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "habilitate"):

prim; prim out; prim up (dress primly)

cover; wrap up (clothe, as if for protection from the elements)

jacket (put a jacket on)

frock (put a frock on)

shirt (put a shirt on)

habit (put a habit on)

vesture (provide or cover with a cloak)

overclothe; overdress (dress too warmly)

underdress (dress without sufficient warmth)

corset (dress with a corset)

shoe (furnish with shoes)

coat (cover or provide with a coat)

costume; dress up (dress in a costume)

robe; vest (clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes)

gown (dress in a gown)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody