disable

Verb

Verb Forms: disabled, disabling, disables

• To make someone or something unable to function.
• make unable to perform a certain action
  • "disable this command on your computer"
• injure permanently
  • "He was disabled in a car accident"
• To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling.
• To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
• To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

Adj

• Lacking ability; unable.

Examples

• A well-placed ’Q’ could DISABLE his opponent’s best scoring lanes on the Scrabble board.
• Falling off the horse disabled him.
• The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.

Synonyms

disenable, handicap, incapacitate, invalid, cripple, deactivate, disable, unable

Antonyms

enable, capacitate, re-enable

Related Words

attack