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- Dictionaryin·ca·pac·i·tate/ˌinkəˈpasəˌtāt/
verb
- 1. prevent from functioning in a normal way: "he was incapacitated by a heart attack"
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to make someone unable to work or do things normally, or unable to do what they intended to do: The accident left me incapacitated for seven months. Rubber bullets are designed to incapacitate people rather than kill them. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Injuring and injuries. at-risk. battered child syndrome. battered woman syndrome.
The meaning of INCAPACITATE is to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable. How to use incapacitate in a sentence.
If you are incapacitated, you can’t do what you normally do, what you’re being asked to do — or perhaps, much of anything. To incapacitate someone is to cause him or her to be unable to function normally, like a bad cold that incapacitates you.
to make someone unable to work or do things normally, or unable to do what they intended to do: The accident left me incapacitated for seven months. Rubber bullets are designed to incapacitate people rather than kill them. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Injuring and injuries. at-risk. battered child syndrome. battered woman syndrome.
Definition of incapacitate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Incapacitate definition: to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable. . See examples of INCAPACITATE used in a sentence.
If something incapacitates you, it weakens you in some way, so that you cannot do certain things. [formal] A serious fall incapacitated the 68-year-old congressman. [VERB noun] Synonyms: immobilize, paralyse, prostrate, put someone out of action [informal] More Synonyms of incapacitate.
INCAPACITATE definition: 1. to make someone too sick or weak to work or do things normally: 2. the fact of being unable to…. Learn more.
How to use . incapacitate in a sentenceThe White House sent people with orders “to incapacitate me totally.”
tr.v. in·ca·pac·i·tat·ed, in·ca·pac·i·tat·ing, in·ca·pac·i·tates. 1. To deprive of strength or ability; disable. 2. To make legally ineligible; disqualify. in′ca·pac′i·ta′tion n. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
