Disabling
Disabling adjective - Depriving of legal right; rendering legally disqualified.
Usage example: certain disabling restrictions disqualified him for citizenship
Enabling
Enabling adjective - Providing legal power or sanction.
Usage example: enabling power
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While it used to take barely a second, enabling or disabling a single addon can now freeze the game for over a minute - even if the addon is barely 5 kilobytes in size!
Source: Loads and Loads of Loading -
Self-Imposed Challenge: The game's Difficulty menu caters to this with options like enabling/disabling JP gain from battles, decreasing encounter rates to earn less EXP.
Source: Video Game / Bravely Default - However, the lightest mech in the game—the 20-ton Firemoth—had an interesting glitch: by enabling double heat sinks, removing all extra sinks, and disabling them again, their number went to -1.
Source: Good Bad Bugs / Mech
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