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Synonyms for disable

The synonym for disable recorded in this bank is incapacitate, in the sense "make unable to perform a certain action". Below it sits the sentence that fixes that meaning, the same sentence with the swap made, and the words that only look close.

1 synonym · Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · verb

The synonym for disable

incapacitateverb, in the sense "make unable to perform a certain action"

One pair, read and signed off by a human before it shipped. The bank records a synonym per sense, so a second one appears here the day disable is audited in a second meaning.

The senseverbTier 4, High CampChange

make unable to perform a certain action

A stroke can disable a person for life.

The sentence the game shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

incapacitate

Same sentence, swapped: A stroke can incapacitate a person for life.

Close but different

The game offers these three alongside the answer. They are close enough to tempt and wrong enough to be wrong, which is the whole design.

enable
redo
soften

Where disable turns up in the game

disable is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 4, High Camp. It is never used as a wrong tile elsewhere in the bank, so every board it appears on is a board it can win.

Play disable

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so disable reaches you as a board rather than a definition: the sentence first, four tiles, and the meaning after you choose.

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This page is built from Open English WordNet 2025, with the sense, the sentence, the tier and the near misses read by a human in the July 2026 audit. No sentence here is generated at deploy time.

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