When someone is disqualified, they are officially stopped from taking part in a particular event, activity, or competition, usually because they have done something wrong. He was convicted of corruption, and will be disqualified from office for seven years The stewards conferred and eventually decided to disqualify us. + disqualification disqualifications dis·quali·fi·ca·tion Livingston faces a four-year disqualification from athletics
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
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