Usually means: Render unable to function normally.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. disable: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. disable: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. disable: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. disable: Collins English Dictionary
  5. disable: Vocabulary.com
  6. Disable, disable: Wordnik
  7. disable: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. disable: Wiktionary
  9. disable: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. disable: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. disable: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. disable: Dictionary.com
  13. disable: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. disable: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Disable: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Disable: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. disable: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. disable: Rhymezone
  19. disable: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. disable: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. disable: Free Dictionary
  22. disable: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. disable: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. disable: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disable: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. disable: Medical dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To render unable; to take away an ability of, as by crippling.
verb:  (chiefly of a person) To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
verb:  (chiefly electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).
adjective:  (obsolete) Lacking ability; unable.

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