disqualify Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make unfit or unsuitable
    indispose; unfit.
    • Your income disqualifies you
  2. verb declare unfit
    • She was disqualified for the Olympics because she was a professional athlete

WordNet

Dis*qual"i*fy transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Disqualified ; present participle & verbal noun Disqualifying
Definitions
  1. To deprive of the qualities or properties necessary for any purpose; to render unfit; to incapacitate; -- with for or from before the purpose, state, or act.
    My common illness disqualifies me for all conversation; I mean my deafness. Swift.
    Me are not disqualified by their engagements in trade from being received in high society. Southey.
  2. To deprive of some power, right, or privilege, by positive restriction; to disable; to debar legally; as, a conviction of perjury disqualifies a man to be a witness.

Webster 1913