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Definition of disqualifying : of Disqualify

Synonyms:

incapacitating, crippling, disabling

ejecting, ousting, deporting, banning, expatriating, amputating, eliminating, ignoring, prohibiting, eradicating, forbidding, rejecting, excluding, evicting, expelling, blacklisting, excising, excommunicating, repudiating, proscribing, banishing, disbarring, barring, exiling, ostracizing, removing, denying, blackballing, renouncing, relegating, disallowing, extraditing, boycotting

curbing, constraining, oppressing, disapproving, precluding, outlawing, restricting, preventing, controlling, curtailing, refusing, suppressing, blocking, inhibiting, restraining

Usage examples:

• Lord Stanley had ruled that, choosing to assume relations disqualifying them to vote with the governor, they were perfectly free to do so; but having done so, they could not retain their employment. - "The History of Tasmania, Volume I (of 2)", John West.
• Both his health and spirits are bad, two very disqualifying circumstances for that employment; yours, I hope, will enable you, some time or other, to go through with it. - "Letters to His Son, 1753-1754", The Earl of Chesterfield.
• We hope our reader will have reason justly to acquit us of any such confounding ideas in the following pages; in which, as we are to record the actions of a great man, so we have nowhere mentioned any spark of goodness which had discovered itself either faintly in him, or more glaringly in any other person, but as a meanness and imperfection, disqualifying them for undertakings which lead to honour and esteem among men. - "The History of the Life of the Late Mr. Jonathan Wild the Great", Henry Fielding.