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to incapacitate
01
to make something unable to work properly
Transitive: to incapacitate a system
Grammatical Information
Action verb
Regular
Present tense
incapacitate
3rd person singular
incapacitates
Past simple
incapacitated
Past participle
incapacitated
Examples
The power outage incapacitated the entire building, rendering all electronic devices and equipment non-functional.
1.1
to injure or weaken someone in a way that one cannot live normally
Transitive: to incapacitate a person or their body parts
Examples
The spinal cord injury incapacitated him, leaving him paralyzed from the waist down.
1.2
to take away someone's ability to make their own decisions through a court order because they have a physical or mental problem
Transitive: to incapacitate sb
Examples
The court ruled to incapacitate the elderly woman due to her advanced dementia.
Lexical Tree
incapacitated
incapacitating
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