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disable

verb

1 disable

Make unable to perform a certain action:
— Disable this command on your computer.

synonyms: disenable, incapacitate.

Roget 158: be impotent etc. adj.; not have a leg to stand on.    vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou [Fr.], vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents [Fr.].    collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop; go by the board, go by the wayside; ... show more

Roget 169: be unproductive etc. adj.; hang fire, flash in the pan, come to nothing.    [make unproductive] sterilize, addle; disable, inactivate.   

Roget 645: be useless etc. adj.; go a begging etc. (redundant) 641; fail etc. 732.    seek after impossibilities, strive after impossibilities; use vain efforts, labor in vain, ... show more

Roget 751: restrain, check; put under restraint, lay under restraint; enthral, enthrall, inthral, inthrall, bethral, bethrall; restrict; debar etc. ... show more

Dutch: onmogelijk maken, deactiveren, uitschakelen, ongeschikt maken, onklaar maken, onbruikbaar maken

2 disable

Injure permanently:
— He was disabled in a car accident.

synonyms: handicap, incapacitate, invalid.


Moby thesaurus: afflict, attenuate, batter, blunt, bugger, castrate, cripple, de-energize, debilitate, derange, devitalize, disarm, disenable, disorder, drain, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, hamstring, harm ... show more.

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