DISQUALIFY (disqualified)

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Irregular inflected form: disqualified   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does disqualify mean? 

• DISQUALIFY (verb)
  The verb DISQUALIFY has 2 senses:

1. make unfit or unsuitable

2. declare unfit

  Familiarity information: DISQUALIFY used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISQUALIFY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they disqualify    ... he / she / it disqualifies   
Past simple: disqualified   
Past participle: disqualified   
-ing form: disqualifying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Make unfit or unsuitable

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

disqualify; indispose; unfit

Context example:

Your income disqualifies you

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

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Context example:

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

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)

 Context examples 

A characteristic or requirement that disqualifies a subject from participation in a study.

(Performed Exclusion Criterion, NCI Thesaurus)

He said a few words to each candidate as he came up, and then he always managed to find some fault in them which would disqualify them.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The state or quality of being disqualified by law, rule, or provision.

(Ineligibility, NCI Thesaurus)

Now that you think me disqualified to become your husband, you recoil from my touch as if I were some toad or ape.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Not till the day before the courses were the shields finally hung out for the inspection of the ladies and the heralds, so that all men might know the names of the champions and have the opportunity to prefer any charge against them, should there be stain upon them which should disqualify them from taking part in so noble and honorable a ceremony.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The state of his health was not a matter in which he himself took the faintest interest, for his mental detachment was absolute, but he was induced at last, on the threat of being permanently disqualified from work, to give himself a complete change of scene and air.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Fanny was very anxious to be useful, and not to appear above her home, or in any way disqualified or disinclined, by her foreign education, from contributing her help to its comforts, and therefore set about working for Sam immediately; and by working early and late, with perseverance and great despatch, did so much that the boy was shipped off at last, with more than half his linen ready.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)