incapacitate

“Viruses that are extremely lethal often tend to self-contain because they quickly kill or incapacitate their hosts,” said James, who now works with Australia’s Southern Cross University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

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

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

He described them as a "highly intelligent" and "active predator" equipped with "specialised glands that produce venom to incapacitate its prey".

From BBC ● Jan. 21, 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

I commanded the voice before terror could incapacitate me.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

You know, that thing that occasionally incapacitates him with guilt.

From Salon ● May 15, 2023

“I said to Ginzburg, ‘Why don’t we ask a few psychiatrists whether a nervous breakdown incapacitates someone for public office?’”

From New York Times ● Mar. 21, 2023

The designated survivor is the member of the Cabinet who remains outside the Capitol during the State of the Union in case a disaster incapacitates those in line for the presidency.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 1, 2022

Unless boxers are allowed to fight until one physically incapacitates the other — which is the way they actually competed at the ancient Olympic Games in 688 B.C. — decisions are an unfortunate necessity.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021

For it appears from the experiments of Van Woensel, that calomel or sublimate corrosive, triturated with variolous matter, incapacitates it from giving the disease by inoculation.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin

For months, rumors circulated that he had actually died, was on life support or was otherwise incapacitated.

From Salon ● Sep. 17, 2026

“He’s been incapacitated from the moment he left the field, and with no chance of recovering,” said Carey, who added that he is limited on what he has been authorized to discuss concerning Mayich’s condition.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

The saga kicked off in April 2025 when Jeremy Ford claimed his father was incapacitated, triggering a clause that would allow him to buy out his father’s interest in the family entities.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 30, 2026

If there’s an emergency and a minor’s legal parents are incapacitated or killed, most rules default to direct blood relationships — grandparents, aunts and uncles, and so forth down the line.

From MarketWatch ● Aug. 26, 2026

Perhaps she knew the gods were too incapacitated to pay attention to Ogygia, and so the island’s magic was broken.

From "The House of Hades" by Rick Riordan

The Timms report finds that there’s been a surge in Brits under age 40 collecting benefits for incapacitating ADHD, autism, anxiety or depression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

CS spray is a man-made incapacitating gas - exposure to it causes a burning sensation in the eyes and watering.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

The findings show the spike design to be extremely effective at damaging the virus' external structure and piercing its membranes, incapacitating 96% of viruses that came into contact with the surface within six hours.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 26, 2024

"It looks like a focal neurologic event. That doesn't mean it's incapacitating, it doesn't mean he can't serve, but it means that somebody ought to wake up and say, 'Wow! This looks like a seizure.'"

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2023

This represents the kinds of things that must be done after the fact, in efforts to compensate for the incapacitating effects of certain diseases whose course one is unable to do very much about.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas