What is "disabling"

Usage examples of "disabling".

The disabling function in question will be achieved by nanobots taking all movement, weapons, and communication systems into inoperable status.

The chemical creates the disabling pathology that gives this stuff its name, a wet-looking, bleary, teary, swollen eyeball that can no longer focus--hence, Wet Eye.

His face appeared to be swollen with a disabling case of the hives, large round lumps from forehead to chin and ear to ear, and there were long, diagonal welts, too, that burned an angry red against his pale skin.

There appeared to be at least three criminal groups operating in overlapping territories, board-ing moored cabin cruisers or luring them in with false distress flags, then destroying their radios, disabling their engines, and stripping them of valuables.

You have no vessels docked on Anwara with weapons capable of disabling us at the moment.

Under other circumstances, they might have ignored these malcontents, who had so far limited themselves to spreading scurrilous rumors, telling stories of injustices at the hands of the patrol, attacking and temporarily disabling a few patrol members under the cover of darkness, protecting wrongdoers, and defacing tunnels and buildings with mocking graffiti.

Simon was asleep, exhausted after another of the disabling attacks of pain, but Leslie lay awake, deeply troubled.

Attitude adjusters, main engine controls, each with one disabling wrong connection.

In the years since, he had governed himself with an iron hand, never once overindulging in drink or any other disabling vice.