"incapacitate" meaning in English

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Verb

IPA: /ˌɪn.kəˈpæ.sɪ.teɪt/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-incapacitate.wav [Southern-England] Forms: incapacitates [present, singular, third-person], incapacitating [participle, present], incapacitated [participle, past], incapacitated [past]
Etymology: Mid-17th century, from incapacity + -ate. Etymology templates: {{suf|en|incapacity|ate}} incapacity + -ate Head templates: {{en-verb}} incapacitate (third-person singular simple present incapacitates, present participle incapacitating, simple past and past participle incapacitated)
  1. To make someone or something incapable of doing something; to disable. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-incapacitate-en-verb-LYrff3TY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ate Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 60 40 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ate: 66 34
  2. (law) To make someone ineligible; to disqualify. Tags: transitive Categories (topical): Law Translations (to deprive of one's legal capacity): zbavit svéprávnosti [perfective] (Czech), inibire (Italian), ubezwłasnowalniać [imperfective] (Polish), ubezwłasnowolnić [perfective] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-incapacitate-en-verb-gh~tlBwT Topics: law Disambiguation of "to deprive of one's legal capacity": 30 70
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: disable Derived forms: incapacitated, incapacitating, incapacitation Translations (to put out of action, to render ineffective): 令癱瘓 (Chinese Cantonese), 令瘫痪 (ling⁶ taan² wun⁶) (Chinese Cantonese), impossibilitare (Italian), whakakaurapa (Maori), онеспособити (Serbo-Croatian)
Disambiguation of 'to put out of action, to render ineffective': 55 45

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for incapacitate meaning in English (3.9kB)

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