incapacitate

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=ca=pac=i=tate

CIDE DICTIONARY

incapacitate, v. t. [Pref. in- not + capacitate.].

•  To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.  [1913 Webster]
•  To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify.  [1913 Webster]

  "It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

incapacitate, v.tr.
1 render incapable or unfit.
2 disqualify.

Derivative

incapacitant n. incapacitation n.

THESAURUS

incapacitate

afflict, bugger, castrate, cripple, de-energize, deactivate, debilitate, derange, devitalize, disable, disarm, disenable, disorder, drain, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, exhaust, hamstring, hobble, hors de combat, hospitalize, immobilize, impair, inactivate, indispose, invalid, kibosh, lame, lay up, maim, prostrate, put, queer, queer the works, reduce, sabotage, sicken, spike, unfit, weaken, wing, wound, wreck

ROGET THESAURUS

incapacitate

Impotence

VB be impotent, not have a leg to stand on, vouloir rompre l'anguille au genou, vouloir prendre la lune avec les dents, collapse, faint, swoon, fall into a swoon, drop, go by the board, go by the wayside, go up in smoke, end in smoke, render powerless, deprive of power, disable, disenable, disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands, double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of, throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote, ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns, take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel, break the neck, break the back, unhinge, unfit, put out of gear, unman, unnerve, enervate, emasculate, castrate, geld, alter, neuter, sterilize, fix, shatter, exhaust, weaken.