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Disable \Dis*a"ble\, a.
Lacking ability; unable. [Obs.] "Our disable and unactive
force." --Daniel.
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Disable \Dis*a"ble\ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disabled; p.
pr. & vb. n. Disabling.]

1. 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.
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A Christian's life is a perpetual exercise, a
wrestling and warfare, for which sensual pleasure
disables him. --Jer. Taylor.
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And had performed it, if my known offense
Had not disabled me. --Milton.
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I have disabled mine estate. --Shak.
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2. (Law) To deprive of legal right or qualification; to
render legally incapable.
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An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood, and
disables his children to inherit. --Blackstone.
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3. To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to
declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to
undervalue. [Obs.] "He disabled my judgment." --Shak.

Syn: To weaken; unfit; disqualify; incapacitate.
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disable
v 1: make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this
command on your computer" [syn: disable, disenable,
incapacitate] [ant: enable]

2: injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident" [syn:
disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap]
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54 Moby Thesaurus words for "disable":
afflict, attenuate, batter, blunt, bugger, castrate, cripple,
de-energize, debilitate, derange, devitalize, disarm, disenable,
disorder, drain, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, hamstring, harm,
hobble, hors de combat, hospitalize, hurt, immobilize, inactivate,
incapacitate, indispose, invalid, kibosh, lame, lay up, maim,
mangle, mar, mutilate, prostrate, put, queer, queer the works,
reduce, ruin, sabotage, sap, sicken, spike, spoil, unbrace,
undermine, unfit, unstrengthen, weaken, wing, wreck



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