disabled [dis-ey-buhld] Example Sentences
Main Entry:
disable [dis-ey-buhl]
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: render inoperative; cripple
Synonyms: attenuate, batter, blunt, damage, debilitate, disarm, disenable, disqualify, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, handicap, harm, hock, hogtie, hurt, immobilize, impair, incapacitate, invalidate, kibosh, knock out, maim, mangle, mar, mutilate, muzzle, paralyze, pinion, prostrate, put out of action, render incapable, ruin, sabotage, sap, shatter, shoot down, spoil, take out*, throw monkey wrench in, total*, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unstrengthen, weaken, wreck
Antonyms: aid, assist, enable, help, improve
Main Entry: aground
Part of Speech: adverb
Definition: on the bottom of
Synonyms: ashore, beached, disabled, foundered, grounded, high and dry, marooned, reefed, shipwrecked, stranded, stuck, swamped, wrecked
Antonyms: afloat
Main Entry: attenuate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: weaken
Synonyms: abate, constrict, contract, cripple, debilitate, deflate, disable, dissipate, enfeeble, extenuate, lessen, mitigate, sap, shrink, thin, undermine, vitiate
Antonyms: expand, increase, intensify, strengthen
Example Sentences
  • The disabled appear to do marginally better academically in mainstream settings.
  • Next, he examined those cells to see whether they started making the previously disabled viruses.
  • To receive any reading materials, the blind and disabled must prove their condition, he said.
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Main Entry: batter
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: strike and damage
Synonyms: assault, bash, beat, break, bruise, buffet, clobber, contuse, cripple, crush, dash, deface, demolish, destroy, disable, disfigure, drub, hurt, injure, lacerate, lambaste, lame, lash, mangle, mar, maul, mutilate, pelt, pommel, pound, pummel, punish, ruin, shatter, smash, thrash, wallop, wreck
Main Entry: bedridden
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: sick in bed
Synonyms: ailing, disabled, flat on one's back, ill, incapacitated, infirm, invalid, laid up, prostrate
Main Entry: blunt
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: make dull
Synonyms: attenuate, benumb, cripple, dampen, deaden, debilitate, desensitize, disable, enfeeble, hebetate, numb, obtund, sap, soften, take the edge off, undermine, water down, weaken
Antonyms: needle, point, sharpen
Main Entry: broken
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: not working
Synonyms: busted, coming unglued, coming unstuck, defective, disabled, down, exhausted, fallen apart, faulty, feeble, gone, gone to pieces, gone to pot, haywire, imperfect, in disrepair, in need of repair, in the shop, inoperable, kaput, not functioning, on the blink, on the fritz, on the shelf, out, out of commission, out of kilter, out of order, out of whack, ruined, run-down, screwed up, shot, spent, unsatisfactory, weak, wracked, wrecked
Antonyms: fixed, unbroken, working
Main Entry: debase
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: degrade, shame
Synonyms: abase, bemean, cast down, cheapen, corrupt, cripple, debauch, debilitate, demean, demoralize, deprave, devaluate, devalue, disable, disgrace, dishonor, drag down, dump on, enfeeble, fluff off, humble, humiliate, lower, put away, put down, reduce, sap, shoot down, sink, take down a peg, take down, undermine, weaken
Antonyms: elevate, honor, laud, praise, upgrade, value
Main Entry: debilitate
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: incapacitate
Synonyms: attenuate, blunt, cripple, devitalize, disable, enervate, enfeeble, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, harm, hurt, injure, mar, prostrate, relax, sap, spoil, unbrace, undermine, unstrengthen, weaken, wear out
Antonyms: aid, assist, cure, energize, help, invigorate, mend, strengthen
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