Disabling
adj, verb ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 present participle and gerund of disable form-of, gerund, participle, present
- 1 That disables; crippling.
"Rationing decisions that accept people's 'needs' for physical care and limited domestic help, while rejecting demands to support integrated social activities as 'wants', legitimise some of our most disabling cultural values."
- 1 that cripples or disables or incapacitates wordnet
- 2 depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified wordnet
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More examples"The post-war economic development of vanquished nations can be rapid if they are not looted by the victors. For this there are two reasons. First, everything has not been destroyed: some things are merely broken; and a relatively small effort of rehabilitation is multiplied by the value of what remains serviceable. Second is the disabling of entrenched power structures, which often stand as a bar to progress."
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