Disable
Disable verb - To cause severe or permanent injury to.
Render and disable are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Render" instead a verb "Disable".
Nearby Words: disablement, disabling
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Both words in one sentence
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He then decides to completely disable him, asking if he has a lick-em-aid stick to cause deafness and tweezers and shoelaces to alter his central nervous system and render him unable to "Fine Tune his Sensitivity to Vibrations"... Then realizes he might become an Olfactory Ninja.
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Not only is he acutely aware of the extent, and limit, of all of the powers of every DC character, he takes it upon himself to put in place "contingency plans" to disable or otherwise render harmless all of said characters in the case that they ever went rogue.
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