English > disable: 2 senses > verb 1, change| Meaning | make unable to perform a certain action. |
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| Pattern | Somebody ----s something; Somebody ----s somebody; Something ----s somebody |
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| Example | "disable this command on your computer" |
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| Synonyms | disenable, incapacitate |
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| Narrower | lay up | disable or confine, as with an illness |
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| nobble | disable by drugging |
| pinion | cut the wings off (of birds) |
| restrain, confine, hold, constrain | To close within bounds, limit or hold back / back from movement |
| Broader | change, alter, modify | Cause to change |
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| Opposite | enable | Render capable or able for some task |
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| Spanish | imposibilitar, incapacitar |
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| Catalan | incapacitar |
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| Nouns | disablement | the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence of physical or mental unfitness |
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