verb
- Make unable to perform a certain action.
- usage: "disable this command on your computer"
- synonyms: disable, disenable, incapacitate
- Injure permanently.
- usage: "He was disabled in a car accident"
- synonyms: disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicap
adjective
- That cripples or disables or incapacitates.
- usage: "a crippling injury"
- synonyms: crippling, incapacitating
- Depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified.
- usage: "certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship"
- synonyms: disqualifying
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