| 单词 | disable |
| 释义 | disable (once / 485 pages) v When an injury disables someone, it leaves the person seriously hurt, probably for the rest of their life. If a car accident disables you, you are permanently limited in some physical way. Illness, as well as injury, can disable people: for example, diabetes disables some sufferers by leaving them blind or weakening their hearts. A completely different way to disable is to make something unusable or unable to work in a certain way. if you disable your smoke detector while you cook nachos in your smoky oven, it won't work until you reconnect the batteries. WORD FAMILYdisable: disabled, disablement, disables, disabling+/ability: abilities, inability/able: ability, abler, ablest, ably, disable, enable, unable/disability: disabilities/disabled: disability/disablement: disablements/disenable: disenabled, disenabling/enable: disenable, enabled, enables, enabling/inability: inabilities/unable: unablest, unably USAGE EXAMPLESThis is feeding demand for increasingly advanced technology to bring down or disable unwanted drones. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Mets finish season with 12 men on disabled list, including Mr. Met. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Mr. Christopher devoted much of his life offscreen to caring for his autistic son, Ned, and to championing for the developmentally disabled and their families. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1v injure permanently He was disabled in a car accident Syn|Hypo|Hyper handicap, incapacitate, invalid hock disable by cutting the hock injure, wound cause injuries or bodily harm to 2v make unable to perform a certain action disable this command on your computer Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper disenable, incapacitate enable render capable or able for some task lay up disable or confine, as with an illness nobbledisable by drugging pinioncut the wings off (of birds) confine, hold, restrainto close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement bind, tie down, tie up, trusssecure with or as if with ropes fetter, shacklerestrain with fetters enchainrestrain or bind with chains pinion, shacklebind the arms of impound, poundplace or shut up in a pound pound, pound upshut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits fold, pen upconfine in a fold, like sheep groundconfine or restrict to the ground alter, change, modify cause to change; make different; cause a transformation |
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