incapacitate

  • 11incapacitate — transitive verb ( tated; tating) Date: 1657 1. to make legally incapable or ineligible 2. to deprive of capacity or natural power ; disable • incapacitation noun …

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  • 12incapacitate — incapacitation, n. /in keuh pas i tayt /, v.t., incapacitated, incapacitating. 1. to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable. 2. Law. to deprive of the legal power to act in a specified way or ways. [1650… …

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  • 13incapacitate — verb to make incapable (of doing something) The police officer was incapacitated by a blow to the head …

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  • 14incapacitate — verb be incapacitated ADVERB ▪ severely ▪ totally ▪ By this time my father was totally incapacitated by his illness. ▪ temporarily ▪ mentally …

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  • 15incapacitate — Synonyms and related words: afflict, bugger, castrate, cripple, de energize, deactivate, debilitate, derange, devitalize, disable, disarm, disenable, disorder, drain, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, hobble, hors de combat,… …

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  • 16incapacitáte — s. f., g. d. art. incapacitäţii …

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  • 17incapacitate — I (Roget s IV) v. Syn. disable, hinder, undermine; see damage 1 , hurt 1 , weaken 2 . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) verb To render powerless or motionless, as by inflicting severe injury: cripple, disable, immobilize, knock out, paralyze. Idiom: put… …

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  • 18incapacitate — [[t]ɪ̱nkəpæ̱sɪteɪt[/t]] incapacitates, incapacitating, incapacitated VERB If something incapacitates you, it weakens you in some way, so that you cannot do certain things. [FORMAL] [V n] A serious fall incapacitated the 68 year old congressman.… …

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  • 19incapacitate — in·ca·pac·i·tate || ‚ɪŋkÉ™ pæsɪteɪt v. limit ability, disable; disqualify (Law) …

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  • 20incapacitate — [ˌɪnkə pasɪteɪt] verb 1》 prevent from functioning in a normal way. 2》 Law deprive (someone) of their legal capacity. Derivatives incapacitation noun …

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