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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To deprive of capability or effectiveness, especially to impair the physical abilities of.
  • v. Law To render legally disqualified.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. To render unable; to take away an ability of.
  • v. To impair the physical or mental abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury.
  • v. to deactivate a function of an electronical or mechanical device.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Lacking ability; unable.
  • v. To render unable or incapable; to destroy the force, vigor, or power of action of; to deprive of competent physical or intellectual power; to incapacitate; to disqualify; to make incompetent or unfit for service; to impair.
  • v. To deprive of legal right or qualification; to render legally incapable.
  • v. To deprive of that which gives value or estimation; to declare lacking in competency; to disparage; to undervalue.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To render unable; deprive of ability, physical, mental, or legal; weaken or destroy the capability of; cripple or incapacitate: as, a ship is disabled by a storm or a battle; a race-horse is disabled by lameness; loss of memory disables a teacher.
  • To impair; diminish; impoverish.
  • To pronounce incapable; hence, to detract from; disparage; undervalue.
  • Synonyms To cripple, paralyze, enfeeble, unfit, disqualify.
  • Wanting ability; incompetent.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. injure permanently
  • v. make unable to perform a certain action
  • Verb Form
    disabled    disables    disabling   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    unable    weaken    unfit    disqualify    incapacitate    disparage    undervalue   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Abel    Cable    Gable    Mabel    Mable    Sable    able    cable    chaebol    enable   
    Unknown
    Sports    Auto   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    unable    deaf    vulnerable    unarmed    helpless    disarm    defective    maim    unemployed    lame