incapacitated

[in-kuh-pas-i-tey-tid]

adjective

1. deprived of strength or ability; made incapable or nonfunctional.

   She’ll be incapacitated for several weeks after the surgery.

   Those stealing fuel from incapacitated tanker trucks risk being killed by explosions.

Word History and Origins

Origin of incapacitated¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; incapacitate + -ed ²

Example Sentences

McGee said that while he hadn’t taken any opioids the night of his overdose, he was administered Narcan while incapacitated.

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Where the bottom falls out is the last-minute decision for Rain to pull a Jonesy, just like Ripley, and go back for Andy after he’s incapacitated and reverted to his childlike personality.

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This was "designed to alert others if the officer of the watch doesn't respond to something, such as another vessel approaching", or to a person "falling asleep or becoming incapacitated".

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Responding to the violence in the wake of the 7 July demonstrations, President William Ruto ordered police to shoot protesters targeting businesses in the legs, ensuring they were incapacitated but not killed.

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It’s unacceptable that severely incapacitated people stagger about like ghosts, their bodies twisted, their eyes vacant.

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