disenable


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dis·en·a·ble

 (dĭs′ĕ-nā′bəl)
tr.v. dis·en·a·bled, dis·en·a·bling, dis·en·a·bles
To make unable or incapable; prevent.
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disenable

(ˌdɪsɪˈneɪbəl)
vb
(tr) to cause to become incapable; prevent
ˌdisenˈablement n
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disenable


Past participle: disenabled
Gerund: disenabling

Imperative
disenable
disenable
Present
I disenable
you disenable
he/she/it disenables
we disenable
you disenable
they disenable
Preterite
I disenabled
you disenabled
he/she/it disenabled
we disenabled
you disenabled
they disenabled
Present Continuous
I am disenabling
you are disenabling
he/she/it is disenabling
we are disenabling
you are disenabling
they are disenabling
Present Perfect
I have disenabled
you have disenabled
he/she/it has disenabled
we have disenabled
you have disenabled
they have disenabled
Past Continuous
I was disenabling
you were disenabling
he/she/it was disenabling
we were disenabling
you were disenabling
they were disenabling
Past Perfect
I had disenabled
you had disenabled
he/she/it had disenabled
we had disenabled
you had disenabled
they had disenabled
Future
I will disenable
you will disenable
he/she/it will disenable
we will disenable
you will disenable
they will disenable
Future Perfect
I will have disenabled
you will have disenabled
he/she/it will have disenabled
we will have disenabled
you will have disenabled
they will have disenabled
Future Continuous
I will be disenabling
you will be disenabling
he/she/it will be disenabling
we will be disenabling
you will be disenabling
they will be disenabling
Present Perfect Continuous
I have been disenabling
you have been disenabling
he/she/it has been disenabling
we have been disenabling
you have been disenabling
they have been disenabling
Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been disenabling
you will have been disenabling
he/she/it will have been disenabling
we will have been disenabling
you will have been disenabling
they will have been disenabling
Past Perfect Continuous
I had been disenabling
you had been disenabling
he/she/it had been disenabling
we had been disenabling
you had been disenabling
they had been disenabling
Conditional
I would disenable
you would disenable
he/she/it would disenable
we would disenable
you would disenable
they would disenable
Past Conditional
I would have disenabled
you would have disenabled
he/she/it would have disenabled
we would have disenabled
you would have disenabled
they would have disenabled
Collins English Verb Tables © HarperCollins Publishers 2011
ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Verb1.disenable - make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer"
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
lay up - disable or confine, as with an illness; "She was laid up with pneumonia for six weeks"
nobble - disable by drugging; "nobble the race horses"
pinion - cut the wings off (of birds)
restrain, confine, hold - to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement; "This holds the local until the express passengers change trains"; "About a dozen animals were held inside the stockade"; "The illegal immigrants were held at a detention center"; "The terrorists held the journalists for ransom"
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The passive ones are all the attempts of an unauthorized access to data or the SMCN infrastructure, in which the attacker does not use emission of signals which may disturb or even disenable correct work of the system.
Agamben's zone of indeterminacy, to which the various determinacies in his curio cabinet are traced back, remains behind precisely as such a transcendental determiner, and it must always remain the determinacy of indeterminacy that it is in order to function as the ever-present possibility of suspension which, Agamben hopes, can disenable the violent machines it otherwise makes possible.
If so, what do these translations enable or disenable? Are there alternatives to universalizing concepts though translation?
Moreover, it provides an adaptive 'CMT-to-Partial CMT' adjustment strategy, when severe receive buffer blocking is detected, CMT-Rev will disenable the path with unfavorable transmission condition for data delivery, conversely, it uses all available paths for parallel transmission and bandwidth aggregation.
Knowing the dangers involved in the action, Lieutenant Danny Green and Kara Foster decide to disenable the Russian battleship.