Disqualify
[dɪs'kwɒlɪfaɪ] or [dɪs'kwɑlə'fai]
Definition
(verb.) make unfit or unsuitable; 'Your income disqualifies you'.
(verb.) declare unfit; 'She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete'.
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Definition
(v. t.) To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act.
(v. t.) To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. Unfit, disable, incapacitate.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See QUALIFY]
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Definition
v.t. to deprive of the qualities necessary for any purpose: to make unfit: to disable.—n. Disqualificā′tion state of being disqualified: anything that disqualifies or incapacitates.
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Examples
- He said a few words to each candidate as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in them which would disqualify them. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- Now that you think me disqualified to become your husband, you recoil from my touch as if I were some toad or ape. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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