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DISQUALIFY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: disqualified   

 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make unfit or unsuitable

Example:

Your income disqualifies you

Synonyms:

disqualify; indispose; unfit

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "disqualify" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Sentence frames:

Something ----s somebody
Something ----s something

Antonym:

qualify (make fit or prepared)

Derivation:

disqualification (the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified)

disqualification (unfitness that bars you from participation)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Declare unfit

Example:

She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "disqualify" is one way to...):

judge; label; pronounce (pronounce judgment on)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "disqualify"):

recuse (disqualify oneself (as a judge) in a particular case)

disbar (remove from the bar; expel from the practice of law by official action)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody to INFINITIVE

Antonym:

qualify (pronounce fit or able)

Derivation:

disqualification (the act of preventing someone from participating by finding them unqualified)

disqualification (unfitness that bars you from participation)

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