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disqualified

disqualified \dis*qual"i*fied\ (d[i^]s*kw[o^]l"[i^]*f[imac]d), adj.

  1. rendered ineligible by law or rule or provision; as, disqualified from voting.

  2. (Sports) barred from competition for violation of rules; as, a disqualified player.

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disqualified

vb. (en-past of: disqualify)

WordNet
disqualified
  1. adj. disqualified by law or rule or provision

  2. barred from competition for violation of rules; "a disqualified player"

disqualify
  1. v. make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you" [syn: unfit, indispose] [ant: qualify]

  2. declare unfit; "She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete" [ant: qualify]

  3. [also: disqualified]

disqualified

Usage examples of "disqualified".

A happy meet for all except Cathy, who was disqualified for running out of her lane in her heat.

She was disqualified as a schoolgirl for the same offence, again in the 1989 World Cup and, of course, she ran out of her lane against Cathy in Monte Carlo in 1994.

Embarrassed Swedish officials cast such an eagle eye over subsequent races that champions Gwen Torrence and Maria Mutola and the Jamaican 4 x 400m relay team were all disqualified in their various events for lane violations far more mild than Perec's.

The Jamaicans were then disqualified for a lane infringement and , Australia got the bronze.

They may have too, because she won the 200m though she was then disqualified for putting her foot outside the lane.

The sectaries were gradually disqualified from the possession of honorable or lucrative employments.

But the weakness of Honorius, and the calamities of his reign, disqualified him from prosecuting this natural claim.

By the imposition of holy orders, the grandson of Heraclius was disqualified for the purple.

This dangerous honor was declined by the more prudent successor of Gregory, who alleged the schism of the church, and the duties of his pastoral office, recommending to the faithful, who were disqualified by sex or profession, by age or infirmity, to aid, with their prayers and alms, the personal service of their robust brethren.

Sophia, who aspired to represent the patriarch, were disqualified by ancient discipline.

He had not received his transferee—and without that alien aura, he would be disqualified for the mission, and be planet-bound.

But if, as was far more likely, the machine showed that only a single aura occupied this body, it would be Swoon of Sweetswamp who was disqualified, not Heem of Highfalls.

I believe you have already disqualified yourself by your attack on the Fa¿.

Tendencies to kill humans have disqualified many otherwise seemingly ideal candidates for domestication.

That’s true of most deer and antelope species (again with the exception of reindeer), and it’s one of the main factors that has disqualified all the social antelope species for which Africa is famous from being domesticated.