The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.
crippling, disabling, incapacitating
(adjective) that cripples or disables or incapacitates; “a crippling injury”
disabling, disqualifying
(adjective) depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified; “certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
disabling
present participle of disable
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Source: Wiktionary
Dis*a"ble, a.
Definition: Lacking ability; unable. [Obs.] "Our disable and unactive force." Daniel.
Dis*a"ble, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disabled; p. pr. & vb. n. Disabling.]
1. 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. Jer. Taylor. And had performed it, if my known offense Had not disabled me. Milton. I have disabled mine estate. Shak.
2. (Law)
Definition: 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. Blackstone.
3. To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue. [Obs.] "He disabled my judgment." Shak.
Syn.
– To weaken; unfit; disqualify; incapacitate.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
16 November 2024
(verb) go and leave behind, either intentionally or by neglect or forgetfulness; “She left a mess when she moved out”; “His good luck finally left him”; “her husband left her after 20 years of marriage”; “she wept thinking she had been left behind”
The New York Stock Exchange started out as a coffee house.