undisable

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verb

To activate or enable (a function, feature, etc.) after being disabled.

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Meanings

verbundisable (third-person singular simple present undisables, present participle undisabling, simple past and past participle undisabled)

present singular third person undisables · participle present undisabling · participle past undisabled · past undisabled · alternative un-disable

  1. transitivecomputingTo activate or enable (a function, feature, etc.) after being disabled.

    You could undisable it with control panel (set it to 'manual startup') but there's no way of knowing whether it will then be in working order. Since we don't know how it got to be disabled, all bets are off.

    1998 March 10, dave porter, “Re: SymEvent error in Event Log what dows it mean?”, in comp.os.ms-windows.nt.misc (Usenet)

Origin

From un- + disable.

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APA

undisable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undisable

MLA

“undisable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undisable. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “undisable,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/undisable.

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