disable
verb (used with object)
to make unable or unfit; weaken or destroy the capability of; incapacitate.
have been disabling
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present perfect progressiveof disable.present perfect progressive
Used to describe an action that began in the past, has continued continuously, and is still in progress.
Example Sentences
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Perhaps it would have been better for all parties had I fired, for it would only have been disabling as black-hearted a scoundrel as ever breathed.
From The Golden Magnet by Fenn, George Manville
