Need another word that means the same as “disable”? Find 29 synonyms and 30 related words for “disable” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Disable” are: disenable, incapacitate, handicap, invalid, impair, damage, put out of action, make powerless, render powerless, weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, indispose, make unfit, deactivate, defuse, disarm, render inoperative, make ineffective, make harmless, disqualify, prevent, invalidate, declare incapable, rule out, preclude, debar, prohibit, disentitle
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “disable” as a verb can have the following definitions:
| damage | Suffer or be susceptible to damage. The snow damaged the roof. |
| deactivate | Make inactive. The men were deactivated after five years of service. |
| debar | Exclude or prohibit (someone) officially from doing something. They were debarred entry to the port. |
| debilitate | Hinder, delay, or weaken. Hard drugs destroy families and debilitate communities. |
| declare incapable | State firmly. |
| defuse | Remove the fuse from (an explosive device) in order to prevent it from exploding. Explosives specialists tried to defuse the grenade. |
| disarm | Deprive of the power to hurt. Police yesterday disarmed a parcel bomb. |
| disenable | Deprive of the ability or capacity to do something. If we can get the communication system we can possibly disenable their whole force. |
| disentitle | Deprive (someone) of a right. She was disentitled to a redundancy payment. |
| disqualify | Declare (someone) ineligible for an office, activity, or competition because of an offence or infringement. She was disqualified after failing a drugs test. |
| enfeeble | Make weak or feeble. The breakdown in law and order enfeebled the government s authority. |
| handicap | Attempt to forecast the winner (especially in a horse race) and assign odds for or against a contestant. Lack of funding has handicapped the development of research. |
| impair | Make imperfect. A noisy job could permanently impair their hearing. |
| incapacitate | Prevent from functioning in a normal way. He was incapacitated by a heart attack. |
| indispose | Make unfit or unsuitable. She was indisposed. |
| invalid | Injure permanently. He was badly wounded and invalided out of the infantry. |
| invalidate | Make invalid for use. A technical flaw in her papers invalidated her nomination. |
| make harmless | Give certain properties to something. |
| make ineffective | Be or be capable of being changed or made into. |
| make powerless | Behave in a certain way. |
| make unfit | Carry out or commit. |
| preclude | (of a situation or condition) prevent someone from doing something. His difficulties preclude him from leading a normal life. |
| prevent | Keep from happening or arising; make impossible. We must prevent the cancer from spreading. |
| prohibit | Formally forbid (something) by law, rule, or other authority. He is prohibited from becoming a director. |
| put out of action | Formulate in a particular style or language. |
| render inoperative | Give an interpretation or rendition of. |
| render powerless | Make over as a return. |
| rule out | Decide with authority. |
| weaken | Lessen in force or effect. Fault lines had weakened and shattered the rocks. |
| blemish | Add a flaw or blemish to make imperfect or defective. A facial blemish. |
| blindly | Without preparation or reflection; without a rational basis. Don t blindly accept dogma as justification. |
| blindness | The state or condition of being unable to see because of injury, disease, or a congenital condition. The field of vision gradually narrows and blindness can result. |
| deface | Mar or spoil the appearance of. He defaced library books. |
| deform | Become distorted or misshapen undergo deformation. The heat deformed the plastic sculpture. |
| difficulty | A thing that is hard to accomplish, deal with, or understand. Had difficulty walking. |
| disability | A physical or mental condition that limits a person’s movements, senses, or activities. Reading disability. |
| disfigure | Mar or spoil the appearance of. Litter disfigures the countryside. |
| dismember | Partition or divide up (a territory or organization. The tiger dismembered the tourist. |
| dyslexia | Impaired ability to learn to read. |
| hamstring | Cripple by cutting the hamstring. He pulled a hamstring. |
| handicap | A race or contest in which a handicap is imposed. He was born with a significant visual handicap. |
| hurt | Hurt the feelings of. Her eyes reflected her unhappiness and hurt. |
| impairment | Damage that results in a reduction of strength or quality. Hearing impairment. |
| incapacitate | Injure permanently. He was incapacitated by a heart attack. |
| injury | The fact of being injured; harm or damage. Compensation for injury to feelings. |
| interrupt | Break the continuity of (a line or surface. The buzzer interrupted his thoughts. |
| lame | Make a person or animal lame. A lame argument. |
| lethal | Very harmful or destructive. Lethal weapon. |
| maim | Wound or injure (a person or animal) so that part of the body is permanently damaged. 100 000 soldiers were killed or maimed. |
| mangle | Press with a mangle. Mangle the sheets. |
| mar | A mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something especially on a person s body. Nothing marred her beauty. |
| maul | Take part in a maul. A man was mauled by a lion at London Zoo. |
| mutilate | Inflict serious damage on. Most of the prisoners had been mutilated. |
| obstacle | A thing that blocks one’s way or prevents or hinders progress. Lack of imagination is an obstacle to one s advancement. |
| ruin | Fall into ruin. You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank. |
| spoil | The act of spoiling something by causing damage to it. To the victor belong the spoils of the enemy. |
| vitiate | Corrupt morally or by intemperance or sensuality. The insurance is vitiated because of foolish acts on the part of the tenant. |
| wound | Inflict a wound on. Chest wounds. |
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