DISQUALIFY (disqualified)

Pronunciation (US):

• 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.

• DISQUALIFY (verb)

Meaning:

Make unfit or unsuitable

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Synonyms:

disqualify; unfit; indispose

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)

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)