Definitions for: Disqualify


[v] make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you"
[v] declare unfit; "She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete"



Webster (1913) Definition: Dis*qual"i*fy, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disqualified;
p. pr. & vb. n. Disqualifying.]
1. To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for
any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for
or from before the purpose, state, or act.

My common illness disqualifies me for all
conversation; I mean my deafness. --Swift.

Me are not disqualified by their engagements in
trade from being received in high society.
--Southey.

2. To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive
restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a
conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.

Synonyms: indispose, unfit

Antonyms: dispose, qualify, qualify

See Also: alter, change, disbar, judge, label, pronounce, recuse

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