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- Dictionaryincapacitate/ˌɪnkəˈpasɪteɪt/
verb
- 1. prevent from functioning in a normal way: "he was incapacitated by a heart attack"
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to make someone unable to work or do things normally, or unable to do what they intended to do: The accident left me incapacitated for seven months. Rubber bullets are designed to incapacitate people rather than kill them. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases. Injuring and injuries. at-risk. battered child syndrome. battered woman syndrome.
The meaning of INCAPACITATE is to deprive of capacity or natural power : disable. How to use incapacitate in a sentence.
to remove someone’s ability to do something: The accident incapacitated me for seven months.
If you are incapacitated, you can’t do what you normally do, what you’re being asked to do — or perhaps, much of anything. To incapacitate someone is to cause him or her to be unable to function normally, like a bad cold that incapacitates you.
Incapacitate definition: to deprive of ability, qualification, or strength; make incapable or unfit; disable. . See examples of INCAPACITATE used in a sentence.
Definition of incapacitate verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
If something incapacitates you, it weakens you in some way, so that you cannot do certain things. [formal] A serious fall incapacitated the 68-year-old congressman. [VERB noun] Synonyms: immobilize, paralyse, prostrate, put someone out of action [informal] More Synonyms of incapacitate.
