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disable
[ dis-ey-buhl ]
verb (used with object)
- to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate:
The detective successfully disabled the bomb.
Synonyms: ,
- to impair or injure (a person or animal) physically or mentally:
The accident disabled him for life.
- to make legally incapable; disqualify:
Minors are legally disabled from entering into a contract.
- Digital Technology. to make (a device, system, or feature) unable to function; turn off:
Some of the car’s advanced safety features can be disabled.
disable
/ ɪˈɪə /
verb
- to make ineffective, unfit, or incapable, as by crippling
- to make or pronounce legally incapable
- to switch off (an electronic device)
Derived Forms
- 徱ˈԳ, noun
Other 51Թ Forms
- 徱·b·Գ noun
- 徱·b noun
Example Sentences
He said the account he drew from was not for the charity but was set up for two golf tournaments to raise money for a disabled former firefighter.
"I was so disabled by the time I got a diagnosis," she says.
While she is happy with the cuts so far, she hopes they leave alone social security - the monthly government payments that she and 67 million retired or disabled Americans live off.
Along the way, police attempted a PIT manuever to disable the truck and eventually boxed it in, with multiple flat tires, in front of the Studio City home.
Dryly, he remarked on the number of homeless – and often disabled – people around the Vatican.
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