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Meanings of disable in English

Portuguese
desabilitar
Catalan
incapacitar

Make unable to perform a certain action.

desabilitar
Catalan
incapacitar
Spanish
incapacitar

Injure permanently.

incapacitar
Usage of disable in English
1
To enable or disable push notifications please carry out the following: 1.
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2
For example, a male may use chemicals to disable his predecessor's sperm.
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3
You place a limpet mine and disable an enemy ship, he said.
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4
I made sure to permanently disable the sound on the surveillance cameras.
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5
Telemedicine students are often instructed to disable their video chat's picture-in-picture feature.
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6
Even a few hundred destroyed transformers could disable the entire interconnected system.
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7
Another bonus: You can disable Macrovision, which protects against copying onto VHS.
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8
Being able to disable the the auto reload when out of ammo.
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9
Once the lockout was engaged, you couldn't disable it for two months.
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10
The huge earthquake device was a far more difficult proposition to disable.
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11
Naturally you can disable the warning if it's not to your liking.
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12
An emergency code lets you disable it so that you're not stranded.
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13
Remember, you can always disable a font instead of deleting it entirely.
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14
Take her back up to her room and disable all the cameras.
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15
Secure Boot runs by default on PCs, but users can disable it.
Wired
16
If your RAID card does read-ahead, this setting will not disable that.
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Translations for disable
Disable through the time
Disable across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Less common