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单词 incapacitate
释义
incapacitate
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v

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.
The verb incapacitate is related to the word capacity. Capacity comes from the Latin word capacitas, meaning “that can contain,” or how much something — brain, bucket or otherwise — can hold. The prefix in- reverses the meaning and when the suffix -ate is added, incapacitate means someone has been made unable to “contain” much — like attention, effort, or energy.
WORD FAMILY
incapacitate: incapacitated, incapacitates, incapacitating+/capacious: capaciously, capaciousness/capacitate: capacitated, capacitates, capacitating, incapacitate/capacity: capacious, capacitate, capacities, incapacity/incapacity: incapacities
USAGE EXAMPLES
But it’s precisely because governments are distracted or incapacitated that there is a role for non-state actors.
The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017)
In 2004, a caregiver at the facility pleaded guilty to neglecting two incapacitated residents after falling asleep on the job.
Washington Post(Dec 28, 2016)
That’s true even in a case like Viacom’s, where the problem was a prolonged squabble over a successor to a possibly incapacitated controlling shareholder.
Wall Street Journal(Dec 23, 2016)
1v make unable to perform a certain action
Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper
disable, disenable
enable
render capable or able for some task
lay up
disable or confine, as with an illness
nobble
disable by drugging
pinion
cut the wings off (of birds)
confine, hold, restrain
to close within bounds, limit or hold back from movement
bind, tie down, tie up, truss
secure with or as if with ropes
fetter, shackle
restrain with fetters
enchain
restrain or bind with chains
pinion, shackle
bind the arms of
impound, pound
place or shut up in a pound
pound, pound up
shut up or confine in any enclosure or within any bounds or limits
fold, pen up
confine in a fold, like sheep
ground
confine or restrict to the ground
alter, change, modify
cause to change; make different; cause a transformation
2v injure permanently
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
disable, handicap, invalid
hock
disable by cutting the hock
injure, wound
cause injuries or bodily harm to
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