Disable and Reduce

Disable

Disable verb - To cause severe or permanent injury to.

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Reduce and disable are semantically related In some cases you can use "Reduce" instead a verb "Disable".

Nearby Words: disablement, disabling

Reduce verb - To bring to a lower grade or rank.

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Disable and reduce are semantically related in defeat topic. Sometimes you can use "Disable" instead a verb "Reduce".

Nearby Words: reduced, reduction, reducing, reducible

ability	disable ability	reduce ability
power	disable power	reduce power
damage	disable damage	reduce damage
target	disable target	reduce target
Other words: opponent, enemy, attacks, powers, enemies.

While in space, there are abilities that can disable your ship's subsystems or reduce their effectiveness, but subsystem effectiveness is independent from your ship's hull integrity.

Source: Critical Existence Failure / Video Games
An option allows the player to disable these and reduce the gore of "normal" death animations.

Source: Adjustable Censorship
Most games in the Battlefield series, but most notably Battlefield 2142, reduce weapon accuracy to the degree of pointlessness while running and outright disable the ability to shoot when sprinting.

Source: Do Not Run with a Gun

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