Associations to the word «Disable»

Wiktionary

DISABLE, verb. (transitive) To render unable; to take away an ability of.
DISABLE, verb. (chiefly of a person) To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
DISABLE, verb. To deactivate a function of an electronical or mechanical device.
DISABLE, adjective. (obsolete) Lacking ability; unable.

Dictionary definition

DISABLE, verb. Make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer".
DISABLE, verb. Injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne