disabling

[ US /ˌdɪˈseɪbɫɪŋ, dɪˈseɪbəɫɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /dˌɪsˈe‍ɪblɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified
    certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship
  2. that cripples or disables or incapacitates
    a crippling injury
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How To Use disabling In A Sentence

  • Other prescription drugs, including tricyclic antidepressants, beta blockers, calcium channel blockers and anticonvulsants, are taken regularly to prevent frequent and disabling migraines.
  • Ask anyone who has got rid of disabling chronic illness by avoiding milk or some other common food and they will tell you about food allergies. The Allergy Handbook
  • Giddiness is a common problem that can be almost disabling.
  • Was that feeling not worth this disabling sledgehammer blow of sorrow?
  • Donald Birger, president of InstaCredit Automart, which sold more than 3,000 vehicles in 2008 through its two dealerships in Collinsville, Ill., and O'Fallon, Mo., says he initially was "leery" of the remote disabling systems, in part because he thought customers might object. Late on a Car Loan? Meet the Disabler
  • Certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship.
  • Returning to England as "the Heroine of the Crimea", she used personal illness (a disabling condition that Bostridge and his peers identify as brucellosis) to hold her family at bay so as to be free to focus on the business of sanitary and medical reform for which she has become justly celebrated. Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk
  • Patients with COPD have progressive airflow limitation leading to disabling dyspnea, with an inability to properly oxygenate the blood.
  • PTSD is easily medically diagnosed but not at all medically respected, despite its disabling effects. The Sun
  • The most effective treatment before 1960 for severe and disabling depression was electro-convulsion therapy.
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