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poistaa käytöstä — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • deprecate verb To say clearly that you disapprove of something.
  • disable verb To take away someone's ability to do something, especially by injuring them.

Senses

poistaa käytöstä is used for these senses in English:

  • decommission To take out of service or to render unusable.
  • deprecate (transitive, chiefly, computing) To declare something obsolescent; to recommend against a function, technique, command, etc. that still works but has been replaced.
  • disable (chiefly, electronics, computing) To deactivate, to make inoperational (especially of a function of an electronic or mechanical device).

deprecate — full definition

  1. verb To say clearly that you disapprove of something.
  2. verb To make something seem less important or valuable than it really is.
  3. verb (computing) To officially mark something as outdated and advise against using it, even though it still works.
  4. verb To pray that something will not happen.

disable — full definition

  1. verb To take away someone's ability to do something, especially by injuring them.
  2. verb To turn off or deactivate a function, especially on a device or system.
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