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incapacitate
/ ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪˌteɪt /
verb
- to deprive of power, strength, or capacity; disable
- to deprive of legal capacity or eligibility
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Derived Forms
- ˌincaˌpaciˈtation, noun
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Other Words From
- in·ca·pac·i·ta·tion [in-k, uh, -pas-i-, tey, -sh, uh, n] noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of incapacitate1
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Example Sentences
The White House sent people with orders “to incapacitate me totally.”
I used to say under Bush the attempt to incapacitate me, “that one is not yet legal.”
A few years' knowledge of other countries than our own will not incapacitate me for that part.
It has been imagined that the plan was to incapacitate him by law for employment, and to hold him a State prisoner.
Defects of the senses do not incapacitate, if the testator possesses sufficient mind to perform a valid testamentary act.
He was one of those whom books cannot debilitate, nor a life of study incapacitate for the study of life.
This was to awe the troops of Count Menard Schomberg, and incapacitate them from fording the river.
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