Meaning of INCAPACITATE
| Pronunciation: | | `inku'pasi`teyt
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- [v] injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident"
- [v] make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer"
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| | Synonyms: | | disable, disable, disenable, handicap, invalid |
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| | Antonyms: | | enable | | |
| | See Also: | | alter, change, confine, hold, injure, lay up, nobble, pinion, restrain, wound | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`ca*pac"i*tate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Incapacitated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Incapacitating}.] [Pref.
in- not + capacitate.]
1. To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to
render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age
incapacitated him for war.
2. (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. --Milman.
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| | Related Terms: | | afflict, bugger, castrate, cripple, deactivate, debilitate, de-energize, derange, devitalize, disable, disarm, disenable, disorder, drain, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, hobble, hors de combat, hospitalize, immobilize, impair, inactivate, indispose, invalid, kibosh, lame, lay up, maim, prostrate, put, queer, queer the works, reduce, sabotage, sicken, spike, unfit, weaken, wing, wound, wreck |
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