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UK
/ɪnkəpˈæsɪtˌeɪtɪŋ/
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[ US /ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪˌteɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪˌteɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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that cripples or disables or incapacitates
a crippling injury
How To Use incapacitating In A Sentence
- They would have been incapacitating, but not life-threatening. AFTERMATH
- Mitchell had four passengers in her car, including Samantha Smith, 18, and 2-month-old Zayadre Warren, both of whom were taken to Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center with injuries officers reported as "incapacitating," the most serious designation used by police. Wacotrib - Latest News Headlines
- In time, she managed to have her own needs addressed, as she too discovered incapacitating ailments that compelled the services and solicitude of her children, physicians, and, eventually, a therapist.
- The pilot unsuspectingly placed the aircraft in an unusual attitude by not staying on instruments, allowing incapacitating disorientation to encroach on him.
- As terror had thrust its way through the incapacitating numbness which had first held her, she had tried to beg them to release her. WHEN THE APRICOTS BLOOM
- As someone whose mother died when she was 15, and mom was 37, the fear of leaving my children motherless is sometimes incapacitating, and particularly so since I do have a minor heart condition. The Heart is a Muscle, Redux | Her Bad Mother
- Moreover, since many illnesses have incapacitating fatigue as a symptom, care must be taken to exclude other known and often treatable conditions before a diagnosis of CFS is made.
- A lengthy illness would pose a leadership dilemma for North Korea, which has never acknowledged an incapacitating health crisis involving Mr.
- The front companies were liquidated or privatized, and most of the lethal or incapacitating chemical and biological agents were destroyed.
- His medical records indicate that he was exposed to nonlethal incapacitating agents like DHMP and glycolate, both of which act as sedatives that produce hallucinations. WHAT REALLY HAPPENED