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verb

Disable v. t. (past & past part. disabled; pres. part. disabling)

To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair. "A Christian's life is a perpetual exercise, a wrestling and warfare, for which sensual pleasure disables him." "And had performed it, if my known offense Had not disabled me." "I have disabled mine estate."

(Law) To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable. "An attainder of the ancestor corrupts the blood, and disables his children to inherit."

To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue. (Obs.) "He disabled my judgment."

Synonyms: To weaken; unfit; disqualify; incapacitate.

adjective

Disable adj. Lacking ability; unable. (Obs.) "Our disable and unactive force."

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"Disable" Quotes from Famous Books

... sidewise in a judo chop. Vistur gave a whooping cry and went to his knees and Ross swung again, sending the Rover flat to the deck. It had been quick but not so vicious as it might have been. The Terran had no desire to kill or even disable Vistur for more than a few minutes. His victim would carry a couple of aching bruises and perhaps a hearty respect for a new mode of fighting from this encounter. He could have as easily been dead had either of those blows landed other than where ...

— Key Out of Time • Andre Alice Norton

... herself on her haunches, in an attitude of angry defiance. Recoiling a step in the only way he could move, and expecting the next moment to find himself within the fatal grasp of the bear, if he did not disable her, Claud aimed and struck with all his might a blow at her head. But, before the swiftly-descending implement reached its mark, it was struck by the fending paw of the enraged brute, with a force ...

— Gaut Gurley • D. P. Thompson

... it not the greatest sin that all of you, the people of all sorts of this kingdom, who are created and ordained by God to bestow both your persons and goods for the maintenance both of the honor and safety of your King and commonwealth, should disable yourself to this shameful imbecility, that you are not able to ride or walk the journey of a Jew's Sabbath, but you must have a reeky coal brought you from the next poorhouse to kindle your tobacco with? whereas ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 • Various

... para condition," Calhoun told him. "I need to be undisturbed in the ship, and I need a patient further along toward being a para than I am. It'll save time. If you'll help, we may be able to beat the thing. If not, I've still got to disable the grid." ...

— The Hate Disease • William Fitzgerald Jenkins

... art of God in creating the world; of God, who (saith Job) "is so excellent as we know him not"; and examine the beginning of the work, which had end before mankind had a beginning of being. He will disable God's power to make a world, without matter to make it of. He will rather give the motes of the air for a cause; cast the work on necessity or chance; bestow the honor thereof on nature; make two powers, the one to be the author of the matter, the other of the ...

— Prefaces and Prologues to Famous Books - with Introductions, Notes and Illustrations • Charles W. Eliot

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