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US
/ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪˌteɪt/
]
[ UK /ɪnkəpˈæsɪtˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /ɪnkəpˈæsɪtˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
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make unable to perform a certain action
disable this command on your computer -
injure permanently
He was disabled in a car accident
How To Use incapacitate In A Sentence
- And these advocates, incapacitated by miscalled seminaries for alluseful endeavor, become defenders of the faith and prosecutors of all and each and any who fix their hearts on such simple and Godlike things as friendship and equality. Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers
- A serious fall incapacitated the 68-year-old congressman.
- A successful attack would incapacitate military training camps.
- He later added: ‘The pathologists say there was no evidence Robert struggled, which suggests Robert may have been incapacitated in some way.’
- The Defendant would then pay the incapacitated person that amount, less any pension contribution if he or she was in the pension scheme and less tax and National Insurance.
- A real man, I used to say, no matter how sickly or incapacitated, should pick up a case by its handle and carry it like a man.
- Officers also carry CS spray which stings, irritates, and incapacitates the suspect.
- Have been severely incapacitated by latest pregnancy symptoms so apologies for absence.
- It's a video litany of natural disasters, of wind and rain and snow and donder and blitzen, punctuated with images of lesser vehicles incapacitated by the elements, while Hummers sail serenely through. Patt Morrison: Hummer? No, Bummer!
- I do not speak from personal experience, for I detest the sweet, cloying stuff; but it occasionally fell to my lot to guide down-stairs the uncertain footsteps of some ventripotent Kommerzien-Rath, or even of Mr. Over-Inspector of Railways himself, both temporarily incapacitated by injudicious indulgence in Swedish Punch. The Days Before Yesterday