disqualify

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ qualify.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkwɒlɪfaɪ/

• Audio (Southern England)

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Verb

disqualify (third-person singular simple present disqualifies, present participle disqualifying, simple past and past participle disqualified)

1. (transitive) To make ineligible for something.

   My age disqualifies me for the position.

2. (transitive) To exclude from consideration by the explicit revocation of a previous qualification.

   The athlete was disqualified after performance-enhancing drugs were found in his hotel room.

Related terms

• disqualification

Translations

make ineligible

• Bulgarian: дисквалифицирам (bg) (diskvalificiram), лишавам от права (lišavam ot prava)
• Catalan: desqualificar (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 取消資格／取消资格 (qǔxiāo zīgé)

• Czech: diskvalifikovat
• Danish: diskvalificere
• Dutch: diskwalificeren (nl)
• Finnish: sulkea pois, estää (fi)
• French: disqualifier (fr)
• Greenlandic: ilaajunnaarsippaa
• Ido: nekapabligar (io)
• Italian: dequalificare (it)
• Maori: whakakore, whakakorekore, whākorekore
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: diskvalifisere

  Nynorsk: diskvalifisera

• Polish: dyskwalifikować
• Portuguese: desqualificar (pt)
• Russian: дисквалифицировать (ru) (diskvalificirovatʹ), лиша́ть права́ (lišátʹ pravá)
• Serbo-Croatian: diskvalificirati (sh) impf or pf, diskvalifikovati
• Spanish: descalificar (es), (sport) desclasificar (es)
• Swedish: diskvalificera (sv), diska (sv)
• Urdu: نااہل قرار دینا (nāahal qarār denā)