Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to disable
Participle: disabled
Gerund: disabling
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | disable |
| you | disable |
| he;she;it | disables |
| we | disable |
| you | disable |
| they | disable |
Perfect
| I | have disabled |
| you | have disabled |
| he;she;it | has disabled |
| we | have disabled |
| you | have disabled |
| they | have disabled |
Past
| I | disabled |
| you | disabled |
| he;she;it | disabled |
| we | disabled |
| you | disabled |
| they | disabled |
Pluperfect
| I | had disabled |
| you | had disabled |
| he;she;it | had disabled |
| we | had disabled |
| you | had disabled |
| they | had disabled |
Future
| I | will disable |
| you | will disable |
| he;she;it | will disable |
| we | will disable |
| you | will disable |
| they | will disable |
Future Perfect
| I | will have disabled |
| you | will have disabled |
| he;she;it | will have disabled |
| we | will have disabled |
| you | will have disabled |
| they | will have disabled |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | disable |
| you | disable |
| he;she;it | disable |
| we | disable |
| you | disable |
| they | disable |
Perfect
| I | have disabled |
| you | have disabled |
| he;she;it | have disabled |
| we | have disabled |
| you | have disabled |
| they | have disabled |
Imperfect
| I | disabled |
| you | disabled |
| he;she;it | disabled |
| we | disabled |
| you | disabled |
| they | disabled |
Pluperfect
| I | had disabled |
| you | had disabled |
| he;she;it | had disabled |
| we | had disabled |
| you | had disabled |
| they | had disabled |
Conditional
Present
| I | would disable |
| you | would disable |
| he;she;it | would disable |
| we | would disable |
| you | would disable |
| they | would disable |
Perfect
| I | would have disabled |
| you | would have disabled |
| he;she;it | would have disabled |
| we | would have disabled |
| you | would have disabled |
| they | would have disabled |
Imperative
| you | disable |
| we | Let's disable |
| you | disable |
Verbs conjugated like 'disable'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'disable'
dishable,
dable,
dibble,
disabuse,
disally,
disenable,
disple,
inable,
able,
accable,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- cause physical disability
- cripple
- to impair the abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury
- cripple, disenable, incapacitate, unable
- cripple
- maim, disarm, lame, destroy, hamstring, enfeeble, impair, incapacitate
- eliminate
- disqualify, incapacitate
Antonyms
- to impair the abilities of; to cause a serious, permanent injury
- capacitate, enable, re-enable
- eliminate
- include, keep, retain, maintain
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. 1444, from dis- "do the opposite of" (see dis-) + pp. of ablen (v.) "to make fit."
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁
4. Proto-Indo-European *d(w)is-
5. Proto-Italic *dis-
6. Latin dis-
7. Old French des-bor.
8. ▲
9. Latin dis-bor.
10. Middle English dis-
11. English dis-
12. Proto-Indo-European *gʰeh₁bʰ-
13. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁ti
14. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
15. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₁yeti
16. Proto-Indo-European *gʰh₁bʰéh₁yeti
17. Proto-Italic *haβēō
18. Latin habeō
19. Proto-Indo-European *-elis
20. Proto-Italic *-elis
21. Latin -ilis
22. Latin habilis
23. Old French ablebor.
24. Middle English able
25. English able
26. English disable
27. From dis- + able.
Sample Sentences
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Falling off the horse disabled him.
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Krav is a martial art of last resort that assumes no quarter and focuses purely on disarming, disabling and, if necessary, destroying your opponent. [2013, Steven McLaughlin, Clubland UK: On the Door in the Rave Era:]
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Fire ants circumvented the problem of an ineffective sting by having an unusual and highly effective venom that when daubed or sprayed on other ants penetrates their waxy protective integumental barrier and kills or disables them. [2016, Justin O. Schmidt, The Sting of the Wild, Johns Hopkins University Press, →ISBN, page 102:]
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The pilot had to disable the autopilot of his airplane.
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At the end of March 2015 the onboard software configuration of the AGILE satellite was modified in order to disable the veto signal of the anticoincidence shield for the minicalorimeter instrument. [2016, M. Marisaldi, A. Argan, A. Ursi, T. Gjesteland, F. Fuschino, C. Labanti, M. Galli, M. Tavani, C. Pittori, F. Verrecchia, F. D'Amico, N. Østgaard, S. Mereghetti, R. Campana, P.W. Cattaneo, A. Bulgarelli, S. Colafrancesco, S. Dietrich, F. Longo, F. Gianotti, P. Giommi, A. Rappoldi, M. Trifoglio, A. Trois, “Enhanced detection of terrestrial gamma-ray flashes by AGILE”, in arXiv:]