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undisable

undisable verb: to activate or enable (a function, feature, etc.) after being disabled.

Verb

undisable (third-person singular simple present undisables, present participle undisabling, simple past and past participle undisabled)

  1. (transitive) To activate or enable (a function, feature, etc.) after being disabled.
    • You could undisable it with control panel (set it to 'manual startup') but there's no way of knowing whether it will then be in working order. Since we don't know how it got to be disabled, all bets are off.1998 March 10, dave porter, “Re: SymEvent error in Event Log what dows it mean?”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc (Usenet)

Forms of undisable

third-person singular presentundisables
present participleundisabling
past participleundisabled
pastundisabled
alternative formun-disable

Origin of undisable

From un- + disable.

Questions about undisable

What does undisable mean?
Undisable means to activate or enable (a function, feature, etc.) after being disabled.
What part of speech is undisable?
Undisable is a verb.
What is the past tense of undisable?
The past tense of undisable is undisabled.

Words near undisable in the dictionary

  1. undirectness
  2. undirects
  3. undirn
  4. undirtied
  5. undirty
  6. undisable
  7. undisableable
  8. undisabled
  9. undisabused
  10. undisadvantaged
  11. undisadvantageous

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