Usually means: Impairs normal function or ability.
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General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. disables: Merriam-Webster
  2. disables: Collins English Dictionary
  3. disables: Vocabulary.com
  4. Disables, disables: Wordnik
  5. disables: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. disables: Wiktionary
  7. disables: Dictionary.com
  8. disables: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. disables: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. disables: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. disables: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disables: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. disables: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

(Note: See disable as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (disable)

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.
▸ Also see disable


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