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单词 incapacitate
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incapacitate
verb[Toften passive]
uk
/ˌɪn.kəˈpæs.ɪ.teɪt/us
/ˌɪn.kəˈpæs.ə.teɪt/
to make someoneunabletoworkor do thingsnormally, orunableto do what theyintendedto do:
使无能力（正常工作或做事）；使无法（做想做之事）
Theaccidentleftme incapacitated for sevenmonths.这起事故导致我7个月不能正常生活和工作。
Rubberbulletsaredesignedto incapacitatepeopleratherthankillthem.橡皮子弹旨在使人丧失行动能力而不是致人死亡。
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(Definition ofincapacitatefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

incapacitate| American Dictionary

incapacitate
verb[T]
us
/ˌɪn·kəˈpæs·ɪˌteɪt/
toremovesomeone’sabilityto do something:
Theaccidentincapacitated me for sevenmonths.

incapacitating

adjectiveus
/ˌɪn·kəˈpæs·əˌteɪ·t̬ɪŋ/
an incapacitatingillness

incapacity

noun[U]us
/ˌɪn·kəˈpæs·ɪ·t̬i/
Thenoveltellsthestoryof a man’s incapacity forlove.
(Definition ofincapacitatefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofincapacitate

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A patient should not be treated as unable to communicate his decision and therefore, defined as mentally incapacitated.
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Why then would we consider overriding the same refusal of medications made by her surrogate decisionmaker on her behalf once she became incapacitated?
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They were formerly engaged in agriculture but a fall had incapacitated him, throwing him on the parish.
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This group included completely incapacitated persons who needed frequent help to perform tasks.
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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.
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It is a long-term, often highly incapacitating illness, its course is unpredictable, and patient care is costly.
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The degeneration of the party, increasing bureaucratisation and the smugness of the leadership incapacitated the system.
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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).
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Damages were always defined by functional considerations: breaking a man's arm willincapacitatehim for life, but causing him pain will not.
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Making decisions on behalf of mentally incapacitated adults.
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The picture is not clear here, for there are a large number of people who are marginally incapacitated.
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With first responders incapacitated, no one was able to mount a damage assessment.
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The colonial institution of property ownership also incapacitated important signals between heterogeneous agents.
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A blow that incapacitates the device should not affect the controller of the device.
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For a lengthy period he was virtually incapacitated.
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