disable
[verb]
Synonyms:
- handicap, cripple, damage, enfeeble, immobilize, impair, incapacitate, paralyse
- disqualify, invalidate, render or declare incapable

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Antonyms: rehabilitate
Contrasted words: restore, resuscitate, revive, revivify
Related Words: harm, hurt, mar, spoil, batter, maim, mangle, mutilate, ruin, wreck

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

dis‧a‧ble /dɪsˈeɪbəl/ verb [transitive]
[Word Family: noun: ability ≠ inability, disability; adjective: able ≠ unable, disabled; verb: enable ≠ disable; adverb: ably]

1. [usually passive] to make someone unable to use a part of their body properly:
Carter was permanently disabled in the war.

2. to deliberately make a machine or piece of equipment impossible to use:
The virus will disable your computer.
—disablement noun [uncountable and countable]
—disabling adjective:
a disabling injury

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲