Antonyms for disablement


Grammar : Noun
Spell : dis-ey-buhl
Phonetic Transcription : dɪsˈeɪ bəl


Definition of disablement

Origin :
  • mid-15c., from dis- "do the opposite of" + ablen (v.) "to make fit" (see able). Related: Disabled; disabling. Earlier in the same sense was unable (v.) "make unfit, render unsuitable" (c.1400).
  • As in disarmament : noun reduction of weapons
Example sentences :
  • The disorder or the disablement is thus almost a family possession.
  • Extract from : « Change in the Village » by (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt
  • Many a time they were rewarded for service and blood and disablement.
  • Extract from : « Smoke » by Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
  • You see, our artillery is intended for destruction, and not for disablement.
  • Extract from : « The Angel of the Revolution » by George Griffith
  • If disablement is your will, there is your way, and the only effectual way.
  • Extract from : « New York Times, Current History, Vol 1, Issue 1 » by Various
  • Ships in danger of wreck or disablement sometimes cast forth such precarious messengers calling for aid.
  • Extract from : « Cabbages and Kings » by O. Henry
  • Then, perceiving the nature of the affair, he asked in a voice trembling with emotion about the man's regiment and disablement.
  • Extract from : « The Lincoln Story Book » by Henry L. Williams
  • If a rancher had his stock run off, it meant temporary impoverishment and disablement.
  • Extract from : « The Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V, 1914 » by Various
  • Today it is easy to find a widow who has at great cost to herself in pain, danger, and disablement, borne six or eight children.
  • Extract from : « A Treatise on Parents and Children » by George Bernard Shaw
  • In case of the disablement of one cylinder, there is the chance of getting home on the remaining ones.
  • Extract from : « The Library of Work and Play: Mechanics, Indoors and Out » by Fred T. Hodgson
  • In several of the boats there was not a single man who escaped either death or disablement.
  • Extract from : « The Heroic Record of the British Navy » by Archibald Hurd

Synonyms for disablement

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