DISENABLE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disenable mean? 

• DISENABLE (verb)
  The verb DISENABLE has 1 sense:

1. make unable to perform a certain action

  Familiarity information: DISENABLE used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISENABLE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disenable    ... he / she / it disenables   
Past simple: disenabled   
Past participle: disenabled   
-ing form: disenabling   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make unable to perform a certain action

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

disable; disenable; incapacitate

Context example:

disable this command on your computer

Hypernyms (to "disenable" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disenable"):

lay up (disable or confine, as with an illness)

nobble (disable by drugging)

pinion (cut the wings off (of birds))

confine; constrain; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody