How do I disable the alt key function?

I have tried to clean my alt key on my macbook keyboard and now my macbook is acting like the key is hold down all the time eventhough it's not. Have tried to play around with the key, but its still the same. I wonder if I can disable the functions of the alt key in the mac os?

you can do it system preferences->keyboard and mouse->keyboard->modifier keys. set "option" to no action. however, option is really a pretty useful key so you might consider trying to fix you keyboard.

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