incapacitating

incapacitate | American Dictionary

incapacitate
verb[ T ]
us/ˌɪn·kəˈpæs·ɪˌteɪt/
to remove someone’s ability to do something:
The accident incapacitated me for seven months.

incapacitating

adjectiveus/ˌɪn·kəˈpæs·əˌteɪ·t̬ɪŋ/
an incapacitating illness

incapacity

noun[ U ]us/ˌɪn·kəˈpæs·ɪ·t̬i/
The novel tells the story of a man’s incapacity for love.

Examples of incapacitate

incapacitate
A patient should not be treated as unable to communicate his decision and therefore, defined as mentally incapacitated.
Why then would we consider overriding the same refusal of medications made by her surrogate decisionmaker on her behalf once she became incapacitated?
They were formerly engaged in agriculture but a fall had incapacitated him, throwing him on the parish.
The shock applied to the woman's uterus traveled to the brain through nerve connections running through the spine and left her incapacitated for life.
It is a long-term, often highly incapacitating illness, its course is unpredictable, and patient care is costly.
The degeneration of the party, increasing bureaucratisation and the smugness of the leadership incapacitated the system.
The two examples differ in that in only a could the individual not have known of the law, for purely agent-relative reasons (she was incapacitated).
Damages were always defined by functional considerations: breaking a man's arm will incapacitate him for life, but causing him pain will not.
Making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated adults.
The picture is not clear here, for there are a large number of people who are marginally incapacitated.
With first responders incapacitated, no one was able to mount a damage assessment.
The colonial institution of property ownership also incapacitated important signals between heterogeneous agents.
A blow that incapacitates the device should not affect the controller of the device.
For a lengthy period he was virtually incapacitated.
Living with incurable cancer at the end of life was experienced as living in physical distress as the body became incapacitated by unexpected physical complications.
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