capacitate-v; 2 Senses

Sense Number 1: make capable, perhaps under the judicial system.

Commentary: Syntax Includes: NP1[agent] CAPACITATE NP2[patient[animate]] NP1[cause] CAPACITATE NP2[patient[inanimate]]

Examples:
They intended to capacitate the prosecutor as a witness.
These measures are meant to capacitate the country's agricultural infrastructure.
Our aim is to capacitate the carbon development trading to SMEs.
She hopes it will capacitate her to see some more of her boyfriend.
This training will capacitate her/him to perform the projects.

Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: capacitate.01
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 1, 3

Sense Number 2: cause (spermatozoa) to undergo the physical changes necessary to fertilize an egg

Examples:
Saline does not capacitate sperm.
Oviductal fluid (ODF) can capacitate sperm.
Many methods to capacitate sperm in vitro have been reported.

Mappings:
VerbNet: other_cos-45.4
FrameNet: NP
PropBank: NM
WordNet 3.0 Sense Numbers: 2