1
as in incapacitates
to cause severe or permanent injury to
a promising athlete who was severely disabled in a plane crash
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2
as in paralyzes
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
disabled the controls for unauthorized users
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Recent Examples of disables
Some even have an immobilizer that disables the ignition if thieves have a key.
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Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
For more information on why The Athletic occasionally disables comments on stories, please click here.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
One of the biggest barriers to drones is electronic warfare, which disables drones by severing their connection with the user.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2025
Two buttons control volume, and a third above them disables the microphone and camera.
—PC Magazine, 12 Nov. 2025
Activating sport mode disables one-pedal driving.
—Mark Phelan, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
Super Cruise includes gaze-tracking technology that disables the system when drivers aren’t watching the road.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Activating sport mode disables one-pedal driving.
—Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025
The agent logs only essential identifiers, avoids storing raw sensor data, caps how much and how often information is recorded, and disables third-party analytics by default.
—Keivan Navaie, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2025
Jeff Wagner, CBS News, 24 Feb. 2026
For more information on why The Athletic occasionally disables comments on stories, please click here.
—James McNicholas, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2026
One of the biggest barriers to drones is electronic warfare, which disables drones by severing their connection with the user.
—Brady Knox, The Washington Examiner, 28 Dec. 2025
Two buttons control volume, and a third above them disables the microphone and camera.
—PC Magazine, 12 Nov. 2025
Activating sport mode disables one-pedal driving.
—Mark Phelan, USA Today, 11 Nov. 2025
Super Cruise includes gaze-tracking technology that disables the system when drivers aren’t watching the road.
—Reed Albergotti, semafor.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Activating sport mode disables one-pedal driving.
—Mark Phelan, Freep.com, 23 Oct. 2025
The agent logs only essential identifiers, avoids storing raw sensor data, caps how much and how often information is recorded, and disables third-party analytics by default.
—Keivan Navaie, IEEE Spectrum, 22 Oct. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disables
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Lorenzo confronts and incapacitates Pepe, Sonia’s main ally, before facing Sonia herself.—
Isabella Wandermurem,
Time,
24 Sep. 2025
Verb
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Monster blizzard paralyzes Northeast with extreme snow, soaring power outages.—
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FOXNews.com,
23 Feb. 2026
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For example, the curare plant poisons used by South and Central American hunters paralyzes the respiratory system.—
Andrew Paul,
Popular Science,
7 Jan. 2026
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These pressures could produce a tsunami that fractures the state’s fiscal foundation, self-inflicts a crisis ultimately demanding drastic cuts, and cripples its competitiveness.—
Andrew Rein,
New York Daily News,
6 Jan. 2026
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Scarface and friends attack the lab, and break out the kryptonite that cripples El and Kali.—
Kelly Lawler,
USA Today,
31 Dec. 2025
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Any behavior that undermines these standards will be addressed swiftly and seriously.—
Alexandra Simon,
CBS News,
24 Feb. 2026
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Dismantling these systems not only threatens health, but also undermines trust, often for reasons that have more to do with self-interest than science, with seeming imperviousness to the real costs in human lives lost.—
Chelsea Clinton,
Vanity Fair,
24 Feb. 2026
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When Don injures his hand, Blue (Hunter McVey) is forced to step into the competition for him.—
Glenn Garner,
Deadline,
26 Feb. 2026
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Bystander videos, like the ones taken of Pretti, have played a key role for decades in informing the public when law enforcement kills or injures people.—
Ava Berger,
NPR,
28 Jan. 2026
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That means the batteries can keep the power on during prolonged severe weather events, peak summer demand, or just a particularly cloudy week that weakens solar power.—
Alexei Oreskovic,
Fortune,
2 Mar. 2026
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First, the skull weakens and distorts sound waves.—
Kurt Knutsson,
FOXNews.com,
2 Mar. 2026
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“Disables.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disables. Accessed 4 Mar. 2026.
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