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incapacitate

[in-kuh-pas-i-teyt] / ˌɪn kəˈpæs ɪˌteɪt /


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Electroshock weapons are designed to temporarily incapacitate suspects with a shock before police detain them.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

“The executive thus can neither outright abolish an agency nor incapacitate it by cutting away the personnel required to implement the agency’s statutorily-mandated duties.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2025

The second study found racial disparities in injuries that occurred when Tasers and similar weapons were used by police to incapacitate people.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 5, 2024

You can use that $21 object to incapacitate a machine that has so far cost many billions of dollars to develop, and will surely consume many billions more.

From Slate • Jul. 11, 2023

I commanded the voice before terror could incapacitate me.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer




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