Synonyms for disable
dɪsˈeɪ bəldis·able

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1. disable, disenable, incapacitateverb

   make unable to perform a certain action

   "disable this command on your computer"

   Synonyms:
   incapacitate, handicap, disenable, invalid

   Antonyms:
   enable

2. disable, invalid, incapacitate, handicapverb

   injure permanently

   "He was disabled in a car accident"

   Synonyms:
   incapacitate, handicap, disenable, hamper, invalid, hinder

   Antonyms:
   enable

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1. disableverb

   Synonyms:
   weaken, enfeeble, cripple, paralyze, unman, disenable, deprive of strength

2. disableverb

   Synonyms:
   disqualify, incapacitate, unfit, make incapable

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1. disableverb

   Synonyms:
   incapacitate, disqualify, cripple, maim

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1. List of paraphrases for "disable":

   disabling, deactivate, disables, off, uncheck, spin-down, disabled, deactivating, deselect, inactivate, deactivation, cutoff, quiesce, defuse, clear, deactive, teardown, de-activate

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How to use disable in a sentence?

1. Charles Mathias:

   This could degrade or disable communications on both systems, causing either both to function improperly or stop functioning altogether.

2. Thoko Elphick-Pooley:

   We can use the impetus we have now from COVID to deal with some of those diseases, like leprosy, which was around thousands of years ago and is still around, we get outraged by diseases that kill, but not by diseases that disable.

3. Lakshheish M Patel:

   At 11 AM today when electricity power will be restored, small traders will see that stock market has come down so those fools will be tempted to buy more shares but they do not think that ihe price will go further down thereafter in the last hour today. Brokers like SBI securities and others will allow traders to buy shares but in the last minutes it disable their trading platform to not allow traders to sell at falling spree

4. Former Lt. Col Rick Francona:

   The vessels themselves may be of interest, but they certainly are not classified, in terms of the electronics the sailors could easily disable the electronic and classified information with a few key strokes.

5. Greg Austin:

   It's clear United States policy to develop the cyber capability to disable enemy ballistic missiles.