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Synonyms for disable

One audited sense, one true synonym, and three words that come close enough to cost you the rung.

Tier 4, High Camp · 1 sense · verb

The senseverbTier 4, High CampChange

make unable to perform a certain action

A stroke can disable a person for life.

The sentence the app shows, and the only thing that settles which meaning is meant.

The true synonym

incapacitate

Same sentence, swapped: A stroke can incapacitate a person for life.

Close but different

These are the other three tiles the game puts on screen for this sense. Each one is a real word with a real meaning, and none of them is a synonym for disable as it is used in the sentence above.

enable
redo
soften

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Closest first: other change words at High Camp, then the same tier across the rest of the library.

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