See Also: disable(medicine)
disable(dictionary)
disable(dictionary)

disable (iou)



disable verb trans. LME.
[from DIS- 2 + ABLE adjective.]
Disqualify legally; pronounce legally incapable. (Foll. by from doing, to do.) LME.
Make incapable of action or use; deprive of physical or mental ability, esp. through injury or disease. L15.
R. D. Hampden Men are disabled from understanding what they have been taught to condemn. Scientific American A car that is disabled or illegally parked.
Pronounce incapable; disparage, belittle. Now rare or obsolete. E16.
Shakespeare As You Like It Farewell, Monsieur Traveller.., disable all the benefits of your own country, be out of love with your nativity.
Make or pronounce of no validity. M16-L17.
disablement noun the action of disabling; the state or fact of being disabled: L15.
disableness noun (arch.) inability, incapacity; disabled state: E17.