transitive. To unfit for action.

Applied to an inanimate or immaterial object.

transitive. To cause to stop functioning; to render inoperative or ineffective.

figurative. transitive. To deprive of energy or power; to render helpless, inactive, or ineffective; (now) esp. to make (a person) unable to think or…

figurative. To reduce to, or hold in, a state of indecision or inaction; esp. in to hang a jury: to prevent (as a juryman) a jury from reaching a…

figurative. To paralyze.

transitive. To cause (something, esp. a biological or biochemical agent) to become inactive or to cease to function. Also (chiefly U.S.): to take…

transitive. To suspend deliberately the functioning of (a technical device or facility); to deactivate.

To render useless, inoperative, ineffective, or futile; to deprive of freedom of action or originality; to frustrate, to stifle, to neutralize.

transitive. To render inactive or less reactive; spec. to deprive of chemical action, to render less chemically reactive.