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disenable

[ dis-en-ey-buhl ]

verb (used with object)

disenabled, disenabling.
  1. to deprive of ability; make unable; prevent.


disenable

/ ˌɪɪˈԱɪə /

verb

  1. tr to cause to become incapable; prevent
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Derived Forms

  • ˌ徱ˈ𳾱Գ, noun
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of disenable1

First recorded in 1595–1605; dis- 1 + enable
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Snowden’s point Monday, however, is that technologists can and must do better when it comes to disenabling dragnet surveillance.

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The Spiritual Court did not cease to molest them, to excommunicate them, then to imprison them; and thereby they were utterly disenabled to sue for their own.”

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They meant also to distress us by accumulating our seamen in their prisons; and this they imagined would disenable us from manning our men of war, or sending out privateers.

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But to be disenabled from walking in this situation was sure death.

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The arm with which I struck was presently disenabled, and it vanished away.

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