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disqualify

verb
/dɪsˈkwɒlɪfaɪ/UK/dɪsˈkwɔləfaɪ/US

Etymology

From dis- + qualify.

  1. borrowed from qualifier
  2. formed as disqualify — “dis- + qualify”

Definitions

  1. To make ineligible for something.

    • My age disqualifies me for the position.

  2. To exclude from consideration by the explicit revocation of a previous qualification.

    • The athlete was disqualified after performance-enhancing drugs were found in his hotel room.
    • If the disqualifications leave a vacancy for the full complement of finalists, swim-offs shall be continued among the disqualified swimmers until a full complement of finalists is assured.
    • A simple majority of 61 MKs will be able to do whatever it wants without any checks and balances; the Supreme Court will not be able to disqualify a law; […]

The neighborhood

Derived

disqualifiable, nondisqualified, nondisqualifying, undisqualified

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disqualify. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01disqualify02ineligible03forbidden04disallowed05invalid06disability07disabled08disqualified

A definitional loop anchored at disqualify. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at disqualify

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA