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DISENABLE
Pronunciation (US): | (GB): |
I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they disenable ... he / she / it disenables
Past simple: disenabled
-ing form: disenabling
Sense 1
Meaning:
Make unable to perform a certain action
Example:
disable this command on your computer
Synonyms:
disable; disenable; incapacitate
Classified under:
Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.
Hypernyms (to "disenable" is one way to...):
alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)
Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disenable"):
lay up (disable or confine, as with an illness)
nobble (disable by drugging)
pinion (cut the wings off (of birds))
confine; constrain; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody