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disable

3 syllables
verbadjective
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As a verb, disable means render unable.

Meanings of disable

6 meanings

verb

  1. To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling.

  2. chiefly of a personTo impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.

    “Falling off the horse disabled him.”

  3. chiefly electronicscomputingTo deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

    “The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.”

  4. Make unable to perform a certain action

    “disable this command on your computer”

    Similar: disenable, incapacitate

  5. Injure permanentlybody

    “He was disabled in a car accident”

    Similar: invalid, incapacitate, handicap

adjective

  1. obsoleteLacking ability; unable.

Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).

Synonyms by meaning

verb: make unable to perform a certain action
disenableincapacitate
verb: injure permanently
invalidincapacitatehandicap
Oppositesenable

Words that rhyme with disable

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