Disable and Wound

Disable

Disable verb - To cause severe or permanent injury to.

Usage example: a promising athlete who was severely disabled in a plane crash

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

Nearby Words: disablement, disabling

Wound verb - To cause bodily damage to.

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Disable and wound are semantically related in injure topic. Sometimes you can use "Disable" instead a verb "Wound".

Nearby Words: wounded, wounding

man	disable man	wound man
someone	disable someone	wound someone
way	disable way	wound way
dragon	disable dragon	wound dragon
Other words: target, opponent, enemy, tank.

The problems with uncontrollable empathy are shown most strongly when discussing combat - shooting someone to wound can disable the empathic shooter with pain, making just killing people safer, and when Lauren is being raped and has to feel her pain along with her rapist's pleasure.

Source: Literature / Parable of the Sower
A deep wound to a limb will disable it; shallow wounds anywhere will only slow you down no matter how many you take (although it gets wonky after a while, because you start looking overcranked rather than staggered with pain and bloodloss).

Source: Critical Existence Failure / Video Games

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