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Synonyms for disabling

The synonym for disabling recorded in this bank is disqualifying, in the sense "depriving of legal right". 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 5, Summit · 1 sense · adjective · 1 reason line

The synonym for disabling

disqualifyingadjective, in the sense "depriving of legal right"

That is the whole set. The bank holds one audited synonym per sense of a word, and disabling carries one sense so far.

The senseadjectiveTier 5, Summit

depriving of legal right

Certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship.

One sentence, one sense. Without it the word could be read three other ways.

The true synonym

disqualifying

Same sentence, swapped: Certain disqualifying restrictions disqualified him for citizenship.

Close but different

These three are the other tiles the game puts on screen for this sense, and the note above says why the closest of them fails. None is a synonym for disabling in the sentence quoted.

crippling
incapacitating
enabling

Where disabling turns up in the game

disabling is the word under test in one puzzle, at Tier 5, Summit. 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 disabling

The bank on this page is the bank the game plays from, so disabling 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. Nothing on it is written while the page is built.

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The wrong tile gets explained too

Synonym Stack plays from this exact bank. disabling carries 1 written reason line, and the game shows them the moment a round ends, whichever tile you tapped.

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