If an injury or illness disables someone, it affects them so badly that it restricts the way that they can live their life.
例句
She did all this tendon damage and it really disabled her...她遭受這么嚴重的肌腱損傷，這實際上讓她殘廢了。Although disabled by polio during the Second World War, Proctor was also a first-rate helmsman.二戰(zhàn)期間盡管身患小兒麻痹癥，普羅克特仍不失為一流的舵手。
VERB
（通常指暫時地）使無效，使不能正常運轉(zhuǎn)
If someone or something disables a system or mechanism, they stop it working, usually temporarily.
例句
...if you need to disable a car alarm.如果你需要暫停汽車報警功能
英英詞典釋義
Adjective
1. that cripples or disables or incapacitates;
"a crippling injury"
2. depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified;
"certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship"