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/ɪnkəpˈæsɪtˌeɪtɪd/ Listen

verb

Incapacitate v. t. (past & past part. incapacitated; pres. part. incapacitating)

To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.

(Law) To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify. "It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incapacitated" Quotes from Famous Books

... finds that the defendant John Schrank is insane, and therefore incapacitated to act ...

— The Attempted Assassination of ex-President Theodore Roosevelt • Oliver Remey

... in this case, from what I understand, he has incapacitated our senior midshipman ...

— Syd Belton - The Boy who would not go to Sea • George Manville Fenn

... had withdrawn in dudgeon on hearing Tammas asked to conduct the ceremony instead of himself. But, great as Tammas was on religious questions, a pillar of the Auld Licht kirk, the Shorter Catechism at his finger-ends, a sad want of words at the very time when he needed them most, incapacitated him for prayer in public, and it was providential that Bowie proved himself a man of parts. But Tammas tells me that the wright grossly abused his position, by praying at such length that Craigiebuckle fell asleep, and the mistress had to rise and hang the ...

— Auld Licht Idylls • J. M. Barrie

... upon the guests at the feast. The princess herself, who was all ready for action, drew a dagger from her girdle and stabbed Nawr to the heart. Her guards, assisted by the re-enforcement which had so suddenly appeared, slew or secured all his attendants, who were so totally incapacitated, partly by the drink which they had taken, and partly by their astonishment at the sudden appearance of so overwhelming a force, that they were incapable of ...

— Genghis Khan, Makers of History Series • Jacob Abbott

... leader and organist to Archbishop Sigismund of Salzburg. There he naturally came in contact with Mozart, in whose biography his name is often mentioned. Mozart on one occasion wrote two compositions for him which the archbishop received as Michael Haydn's. The Concertmeister was incapacitated by illness at the time, and Mozart came to his rescue to save his salary, which the archbishop had characteristically threatened to stop. Mozart also scored several of his sacred ...

— Haydn • J. Cuthbert Hadden

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