Definitions for disable

disable dis·a·ble

Spelling: [dis-ey-buh l]
IPA: /dɪsˈeɪ bəl/

Disable is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 316 anagrams from letters in disable (abdeils).

Definitions for disable

verb (used with object)

  1. to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate:
  2. to make legally incapable; disqualify.

Origin of disable

First recorded in 1475-85; dis-1 + able

Examples for disable

In Yemen, Somalia, Iraq, and Mali, we have to keep working with partners to disrupt and disable these networks.

This would seem to refute the new report that the captain alone would have been able to disable all the systems.

Now he had to make another when her threat was not to kill him but to disable the ship.

Running over a floating log might disable our propeller, and we should be helpless then.

I must disable this machinery and give the tug a chance to escape.

Her first move was to disable the “retweet cartels,” a setup that automatically retweets from preprogrammed users or hashtags.

But how do you disable a smooth-surfaced turtle-backed machine?

And he repeats the Arabic proverb in broken Arabic, “A drop of pus will disable a camel.”

It's true that if Republicans continue to disable themselves, Democrats have more freedom to indulge their progressive instincts.

Once you enslave a computer to do what you want, you disable it for real love.

Word Value for disable
Scrable

10

Words with friends

12

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