Disqualify

Definition: Disqualify

Disqualify

Verb

1. Make unfit or unsuitable; "Your income disqualifies you".

2. Declare unfit; "She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete".

Date "disqualify" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Note: Disqualify \Dis*qual"i*fy\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Disqualified; present participle verb or noun Disqualifying.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Disqualify

Synonyms: indispose (v), unfit (v). (additional references)

Antonym: qualify (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impotence	Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.
Inutility	Render useless; Adjective: dismantle, dismast, dismount, disqualify, disable; unrig; cripple, lame; (injure); spike guns, clip the wings; put out of gear.
Undueness	Disfranchise, disentitle, disqualify; invalidate.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Disqualify

English words defined with "disqualify": Dishabilitate ♦ recusal, recusation, recuse ♦ Unqualify. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	As you know, Bart, one day your permanent record will disqualify you from all but the hottest and noisiest jobs. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		Even one seizure a year may disqualify a person from having a driver's license. (references)
Business		"Solutions" and or specifications not listed will disqualify the bid. (references)
Economic History	Samoa	The change will likely disqualify some Samoans living overseas who had planned to return and run for election. (references)
Human Rights	Guatemala	In July the court reversed an earlier decision to disqualify the previous 2 years of the process and set a date of October 10 for the trial to begin. (references)
Political Economy	Iran	The Constitution provides the Council of Guardians the power to screen and disqualify candidates for elective offices based on an ill-defined set of requirements, including candidates' ideological beliefs. (references)
Political Rights	Cameroon	Some observers believe that Fru Ndi's conviction might enable the Government in the future to disqualify him for any public office for which he may seek to run. (references)
	Thailand	In October 2000, the Constitutional Court ruled that the Election Commission could disqualify a candidate whom the Commission finds guilty of electoral irregularities. (references)
	Kyrgyz Republic	The Office of Democratic Institutions and Human Rights of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE/ODIHR) stated that "international standards for equal, free, fair, and accountable elections were not met." The Government took steps to disqualify otherwise qualified candidates by charging and convicting them on questionable criminal charges. (references)
Trade	Taiwan	Other problems include short lead times on major tenders, non-transparent and lengthy warranty provisions, unclear payment schedules, and pre-qualification requirements which limit experience to similar projects in Taiwan and disqualify related overseas experience. (references)
Worker Rights	Venezuela	The Chavez Government, which had endorsed a FBT candidate, Artistobulo Isturiz, claimed that massive fraud had decided the election and refused to recognize Ortega as the winner; however, Ortega assumed the presidency of the CTV despite a threat by the Government to disqualify his election. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Disqualify" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 80.33% of the time. "Disqualify" is used about 61 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	80.33%	49	48,677
Lexical Verb (base form)	19.67%	12	101,599
Total	100.00%	61	N/A

Expression using "disqualify": disqualify for. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "disqualify"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		shkualifikoj, përjashtoj (bar, cast out, count out, dispense, drop, eliminate, except, exclude, excommunicate, expel, forbid, foreclose, oust, reject, rule out, score out, send down, weed out), nuk e lejoj, ndaloj (arrest, balk, ban, bar, baulk, block, break down, cease, challenge, close down, come to a halt, debar, detain, disallow, enjoin, estop, forbid, halt, impede, inhibit, interdict, negative, nip, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, pull up, stall, stop, tackle, withhold), bëj i paaftë (disable, incapacitate). (various references)

Arabic		‏حرم من الحقوق, ‏حرم من الاشتراك, ‏جرد من الاهلية. (various references)

Bulgarian		лишавам от право да шофира, лишавам от права (disable, incapacitate), правя негоден (crock, disable, incapacitate, indispose, lame, unfit), дисквалифицирам. (various references)

Chinese		不合� � (Disqualified, Disqualifying, ineligibility, ineligible). (various references)

Czech		diskvalifikovat, vylouèit (debar, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, foreclose, negate, pip, preclude, remove, rule out, shut, shut off, throw out). (various references)

Farsi		مردودکردن(درامتحان وغیره), سلب صلاحیت کردن از (Incapacitate), شایسته ندانستن . (various references)

Finnish		jäävätä (challenge the validity of, disqualify somebody, take exception to). (various references)

French		disqualifier. (various references)

German		disqualifizieren (to disqualify), für untauglich erklären, aussteuern (provide with a dowry, trousseaux), ausschließen (bar, blackball, debar, deprive, draw out, drive out, eliminate, except, exclude, expel, express, forbid, foreclose, give utterance to, leave out, lock out, preclude, precluding, pull out, rule out, space out, suspend, to exclude, to foreclose, to space out, utter). (various references)

Greek		κάνω ακατάλληλο, καθιστώ ακατάλληλο, στερώ δικαιώματοσ. (various references)

Hebrew		לפסול (cancel, disallow, illegalize, invalidate, reject, rule out). (various references)

Hungarian		diszkvalifikál (to disqualify), kizár (bar, disbar, estop, exclude, foreclose, lock out, rub out, rule out, shut out, to blackball, to close off, to disbar, to disqualify, to except, to exclude, to expel, to foreclose, to keep out, to lock out, to shut out, to strangulate), képtelenné tesz (disable, to disable, to incapacitate), képtelenné nyilvánít, alkalmatlanná tesz (disenable, invalid, to disincline, to incapacitate, unfit), alkalmatlanná nyilvánít. (various references)

Indonesian		membatalkan (annul, countermand, delay, nullify, postpone, quash, rescind, revoke). (various references)

Italian		squalificare (bring discredit), interdire (ban, forbid, interdict), escludere (bar, debar, exclude, exclude one another, foreclose, leave out, rule out). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		取り上�'る (to confiscate, to deprive, to disqualify, to pick up, to take up), 取上�'る (to confiscate, to deprive, to disqualify, to pick up, to take up). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		とりあ�'る (to accept, to adopt, to confiscate, to deprive, to disqualify, to listen to, to pick up, to take up). (various references)

Manx		jee-aarlaghey (disqualification), cur lhiettrimys er (ban, block, circumscribe, handicap, head off), cur bac er (counteract, disable, hinderance, obstruct). (various references)

Pig Latin		isqualifyday

Portuguese		desqualificar (incapacitate), desqualificado, desclassificar (declassify). (various references)

Romanian		descalifica, priva de dreptul. (various references)

Russian		дисквалифицировать (disenable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		diskvalifikovati. (various references)

Spanish		inhabilitar (disable, unfit). (various references)

Swedish		diskvalificera (disable, disenable, incapacitate). (various references)

Turkish		diskalifiye etmek (rule out), yetkisini elinden almak, yetersiz bulmak, menetmek (ban, bar, constrain, debar, disable, disallow, enjoin, estop, forbid, foreclose, interdict, prevent, prohobit, warn from, warn off). (various references)

Ukrainian		робити непридатним (unfit), дискваліфікувати (unfit). (various references)

Welsh		anghymhwyso (unfit), anghyfaddasu (unfit), anaddasu (unfit). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "disqualify": disqualifying. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Disqualify" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: disquality. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "disqualify" (pronounced di'skwÄ"lufī')
7	-k w Ä" l u f ī'	qualify, requalify.
5	-Ä" l u f ī'	mollify.
4	-l u f ī'	amplify, exemplify, nullify, oversimplify, simplify, vilify.
3	-u f ī'	acidify, beautify, calcify, certify, clarify, classify, codify, crucify, decertify, declassify, deify, demystify, detoxify, dignify, diversify, edify, electrify, falsify, fortify, gentrify, glorify, gratify, horrify, identify, indemnify, intensify, justify, liquefy, magnify, misidentify, modify, mortify, mummify, mystify, notify, ossify, pacify, personify, petrify, purify, quantify, ramify, ratify, reclassify, rectify, reunify, signify, solidify, specify, stratify, stultify, terrify, testify, typify, unify, verify.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-d-f-i-i-l-q-s-u-y"
	-3 letters: liquids, liquify, qualify, siliqua, squalid.
	-4 letters: aidful, dulias, faulds, fluids, iliads, liquid, quails, saiyid, salify, sialid, sulfid.
	-5 letters: alifs, daily, daisy, dials, duals, dulia, fails, fauld, flays, fluid, fusil, idyls, iliad, lauds, qaids, quads, quail, quais, quasi, quays, quids, sadly, sayid, squad, squid, sulfa, yauds, yauld.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-f-i-i-l-q-s-u-y"
	+3 letters: disqualifying.
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