DISQUALIFY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Irregular inflected form: disqualified

I. (verb)

Verb forms

Present simple: I / you / we / they disqualify ... he / she / it disqualifies

Past simple: disqualified

Past participle: disqualified

-ing form: disqualifying

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make unfit or unsuitable

Example:

Your income disqualifies you

Synonyms:

disqualify; indispose; unfit

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "disqualify" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

qualify (make fit or prepared)

Derivation:

disqualification (the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified)

disqualification (unfitness that bars you from participation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Declare unfit

Example:

She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "disqualify" is one way to...):

judge; label; pronounce (pronounce judgment on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disqualify"):

recuse (disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case)

disbar (remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action)