transcription, транскрипция: [ dɪseɪb(ə)l ]
( disables, disabling, disabled)
1.
If an injury or illness disables someone, it affects them so badly that it restricts the way that they can live their life.
She did all this tendon damage and it really disabled her...
Although disabled by polio during the Second World War, Proctor was also a first-rate helmsman.
VERB : V n , V-ed
• dis‧abling
...skin ulcers which are disfiguring and sometimes disabling.
ADJ
2.
If someone or something disables a system or mechanism, they stop it working, usually temporarily.
...if you need to disable a car alarm.
VERB : V n