incapacitate

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in·ca·pa·ci·tate /ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪteɪt/ AWL verb [transitiveT] formal

1 WEAKto make you too ill or weak to live and work normally 使无能力〔正常生活和工作〕

Her mother has been incapacitated by a fall.

她母亲摔了一跤后，失去了正常生活能力。

an incapacitating injury

使人失去活动能力的伤

2 to stop a system, piece of equipment etc from working properly 使〔系统、设备等〕停止正常工作，使瘫痪

A successful attack would incapacitate military training camps.

一次成功的攻击能使军事训练营陷入瘫痪。

—incapacitation /ˌɪnkəpæsɪˈteɪʃən/ noun [uncountableU]

Examples from the Corpus

incapacitate• Together with the pain of an episiotomy, these feelings left her almost incapacitated.• This debilitating absence has raised, first, the question of when and how a leader should be declared incapacitated.• Each point has the power, when struck forcibly, to incapacitate an opponent.• The benefit can start either four, 13 or 26 weeks after the policyholder is incapacitated and payments continue for 52 weeks.• The warhorses are assumed to be slain or incapacitated, but any surviving crew may continue to fight on foot.• The volunteers shop, drive, and cook for people incapacitated by cancer.• They assert that the student has been incapacitated by the power differential, and must be in need of their protection.• He suffered from the kind of hypersensitivity which, unchecked or unguarded, would have incapacitated him.• I have in fact only once been incapacitated, on that occasion by a severe attack of malaria.• Last year, severe storms incapacitated the whole town.

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