(~s, disabling, ~d)
1.
If an injury or illness ~s 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 ~d her...
Although ~d by polio during the Second World War, Proctor was also a first-rate helmsman.
VERB: V n, V-ed
disabling
...skin ulcers which are disfiguring and sometimes disabling.
ADJ
2.
If someone or something ~s a system or mechanism, they stop it working, usually temporarily.
...if you need to ~ a car alarm.
VERB: V n