Definition of Disabling

1. Adjective. That cripples or disables or incapacitates. "A crippling injury"

Exact synonyms: Crippling, Incapacitating
Similar to: Unhealthful

2. Adjective. Depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified. "Certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship"
Exact synonyms: Disqualifying
Antonyms: Enabling

Definition of Disabling

1. Verb. (present participle of disable) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Disabling

1. disable [v] - See also: disable

Lexicographical Neighbors of Disabling

disablable
disable
disableable
disabled
disabled children
disabled person
disabled persons
disableism
disableist
disablement
disablements
disableness
disabler
disablers
disables
disabling (current term)
disablingly
disablism
disablist
disabusal
disabusals
disabuse
disabused
disabused(p)
disabuses
disabusing
disaccharidase
disaccharidase deficiency
disaccharidases
disaccharide

Literary usage of Disabling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Law of Charities and Mortmain: Being a 3d Ed. of Tudor's Charitable Trusts by Owen Davies Tudor, Leonard Syer Bristowe, Walter Ivimey Cook (1889)
"1, or other disabling Acta. disabling Acts. PP 38. All leases, sales, exchanges, partitions, and transactions authorized by the Board under the principal ..."

2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"... the reasonable indulgence here given. § 438. (bb) disabling statutes.—Next follows, in order of time, the disabling or restraining statute, 1 Eliz., c. ..."

3. Mental Health, United States, 1994 edited by Ronald W. Manderscheid, Mary A. Sonnenschein (1995)
"Major disabling Condition Psychotic disorders, neurotic disorders, and other mental illnesses, the three general categories of disabling mental illness ..."

4. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"Biting off the ear of a human being is mayhem, within Pen. Code, § 203, which makes the disabling or disfiguring of a member of the body of a ..."

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