Word of the Day
redolent
D
-
disable
/dɪs ˈeɪ bəl/
?
make unable to perform a certain action
disable meaning(s)
Add to My List
- (v) make unable to perform a certain action
- (v) injure permanently
Synonym(s)
disable usage(s) Create your Own
- When it was clear there were no circuit breakers to disable the stabilizer, the crew requested permission to make an emergency landing at Los Angeles International Airport.
- The government did disable the Yongbyon reactor, its key source of nuclear fuel, and blew up its cooling tower with the world's cameras rolling in June.
-
disabled
/dɪs ˈeɪ bəld/
?
people collectively who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped
-
disablement
/dɪs ˈɛɪ bl mənt/
?
the condition of being unable to perform as a consequence…
-
disabling
/dɪs ˈeɪ bə lɪŋ/
?
that cripples or disables or incapacitates
-
disabuse
/dɪs ə ˈbjus/
?
free somebody (from an erroneous belief)
-
disabused
/dɪs ə ˈbjuzd/
?
freed of a mistaken or misguided notion
-
disaccharidase
an enzyme that catalyzes the hydrolysis of disaccharides into monosaccharides
-
disaccharide
any of a variety of carbohydrates that yield two monosaccharide molecules…
-
disaccord
be different from one another
-
disadvantage
/ˌdɪs əd ˈvæn tɪdʒ/
?
the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position
-
disadvantaged
/dɪs əd ˈvæn tɪdʒd/
?
marked by deprivation especially of the necessities…
-
disadvantageous
/ˌdɪs ˌæd ˌvæn ˈteɪ dʒəs/
?
constituting a disadvantage
-
disadvantageously
in a disadvantageous way; to someone's disadvantage
-
disaffect
/ˌdɪs ə ˈfɛkt/
?
arouse hostility or indifference in where there had formerly been…
-
disaffected
/ˌdɪs ə ˈfɛk tɪd/
?
discontented as toward authority
-
disaffection
/ˌdɪs ə ˈfɛk ʃən/
?
the feeling of being alienated from other people
-
disaffirmation
the act of asserting that something alleged is not true
-
disafforest
remove the trees from
-
disagree
/dɪs ə ˈɡri/
?
be of different opinions
-
disagree with
not be very easily digestible
-
disagreeable
/ˌdɪs ə ˈɡri ə bəl/
?
not to your liking
-
disagreeable person
a person who is not pleasant or agreeable
-
disagreeable woman
a woman who is an unpleasant person
-
disagreeableness
the quality of being disagreeable and unpleasant