disenable - definition, synonyms and pronunciation

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make unable to perform a certain action“disable this command on your computer”Synonyms: disable incapacitateMore general change, alterMore specific restrain, lay up, nobble, pinion

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Dis′en·a′ble transitive verb

Origin: Pref. dis- + enable.

To disable; to disqualify.

The sight of it might damp me and disenable me to speak.— State Trials (1640).

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54