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What does capable mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word capable? Here's what it means.

Adjective
  1. Able and efficient; having the ability needed for a specific task; having the disposition to do something; permitting or being susceptible to something.
  2. (obsolete) Of sufficient capacity or size for holding, containing, receiving or taking in. Construed with of, for or an infinitive.
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There are marvellous younger people, all over the world, ready and willing, capable and energetic.
Because free radicals are highly reactive, they are capable of damaging the body.
If his teammates are to be believed, he was capable of draining a bathtub full of beer and two bottles of rye in a single sitting.
But he is also capable of terse, astringent judgments and an incisive turn of phrase.
If so, it will boost the hopes of astrobiologists who believe Europa might also be capable of supporting some form of life.
Griffith also is capable of coveting tight ends, chasing down running backs and wide receivers or rushing the quarterback.

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