Disable

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  • transitive verb. To deprive of capability or effectiveness, especially to impair the physical abilities of.
  • transitive verb. To render legally incapable of performing an act.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Wanting ability; incompetent.
  • To render unable; deprive of ability, physical, mental, or legal; weaken or destroy the capability of; cripple or incapacitate: as, a ship is disabled by a storm or a battle; a race-horse is disabled by lameness; loss of memory disables a teacher.
  • To impair; diminish; impoverish.
  • To pronounce incapable; hence, to detract from; disparage; undervalue.
  • Synonyms To cripple, paralyze, enfeeble, unfit, disqualify.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Lacking ability; unable.
  • transitive verb. To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable.
  • transitive verb. To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • verb. To render unable; to take away an ability of.
  • verb. To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
  • verb. to deactivate a function of an electronical or mechanical device.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. injure permanently
  • verb. make unable to perform a certain action
  • Word Usage
    "At the moment we should operate under the assumption that the ship, while disable, is still manned to the brim by the roguish scum."
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    Abel  Cable  Gable  Mabel  Mable  
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    afflict  attenuate  batter  blunt  bugger  
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