DISENABLE

disable, disenable, incapacitate

(verb) make unable to perform a certain action; “disable this command on your computer”

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Verb

disenable (third-person singular simple present disenables, present participle disenabling, simple past and past participle disenabled)

(obsolete, transitive) To disable; to disqualify.

Synonyms

• See disable

Anagrams

• baselined

Source: Wiktionary


Dis`en*a"ble, v. t. Etym: [Pref. dis- + enable.]

Definition: To disable; to disqualify. The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak. State Trials (1640).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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