Thesaurus / incapacitate
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Two support cables frame Emily Warren Roebling, an engineer who continued her husband’s work on the Brooklyn Bridge after he was incapacitated.
IN THE GALLERIES: A FOCUS ON SENSITIVE PORTRAITS WITH BIOGRAPHICAL ELEMENTSMARK JENKINSMARCH 26, 2021WASHINGTON POST
A few years' knowledge of other countries than our own will not incapacitate me for that part.
MY RECOLLECTIONS OF LORD BYRONTERESA GUICCIOLI
It has been imagined that the plan was to incapacitate him by law for employment, and to hold him a State prisoner.
SIR WALTER RALEGHWILLIAM STEBBING
Defects of the senses do not incapacitate, if the testator possesses sufficient mind to perform a valid testamentary act.
THE CURIOSITIES AND LAW OF WILLSJOHN PROFFATT
He was one of those whom books cannot debilitate, nor a life of study incapacitate for the study of life.
ON THE SUBLIMELONGINUS
This was to awe the troops of Count Menard Schomberg, and incapacitate them from fording the river.
THE EVE OF ALL-HALLOWS, V. 2 OF 3MATTHEW WELD HARTSTONGE
The common moods that thus incapacitate the soul for faith are easily seen in any man's experience.
THE MEANING OF FAITHHARRY EMERSON FOSDICK
The image here is the hostage rescue team employing stun grenades to incapacitate an adversary, but on a far larger scale.
SHOCK AND AWEHARLAN K. ULLMAN
Let not the enjoyment of pleasures now within your grasp be carried to such excess as to incapacitate you from future repetition.
MANY THOUGHTS OF MANY MINDSVARIOUS
This agitation was however such as to incapacitate him during the afternoon for study of any kind.
ZOONOMIA, VOL. IIERASMUS DARWIN
WORDS RELATED TO INCAPACITATE
- action
- attenuate
- batter
- blunt
- cripple
- damage
- debilitate
- disarm
- disenable
- disqualify
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exhaust
- hamstring
- handicap
- harm
- hock
- hogtie
- hurt
- impair
- incapacitate
- invalidate
- kibosh
- knock out
- maim
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- muzzle
- paralyze
- pinion
- prostrate
- put out of action
- render incapable
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- shatter
- shoot down
- spoil
- take out
- throw monkey wrench in
- total
- unbrace
- undermine
- unfit
- unstrengthen
- weaken
- wreck
- action
- attenuate
- batter
- blunt
- cripple
- damage
- debilitate
- disarm
- disenable
- disqualify
- enervate
- enfeeble
- exhaust
- hamstring
- handicap
- harm
- hock
- hogtie
- hurt
- impair
- incapacitate
- invalidate
- kibosh
- knock out
- maim
- mangle
- mar
- mutilate
- muzzle
- paralyze
- pinion
- prostrate
- put out of action
- render incapable
- ruin
- sabotage
- sap
- shatter
- shoot down
- spoil
- take out
- throw monkey wrench in
- total
- unbrace
- undermine
- unfit
- unstrengthen
- weaken
- wreck
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