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Incapacitate Unable Incapacitated Word Capacity Meaning ˌɪnkə'Pæsɪteɪt V.使不能;使不适于

Front incapacitate
Pron [ˌɪnkə'pæsɪteɪt]
Back 【incapacitate】
v.使不能;使不适于
The play's injury incapacitated him for participating in the football match.
运动员的伤势使得他无法参加足球比赛。
Vocab
incapacitatemake unable to perform a certain action

If you are incapacitated, you can’t do what you normally do, what you’re being asked to do — or perhaps, much of anything. To incapacitate someone is to cause him or her to be unable to function normally, like a bad cold that incapacitates you.

The verb incapacitate is related to the word capacity. Capacity comes from the Latin word capacitas, meaning “that can contain,” or how much something — brain, bucket or otherwise — can hold. The prefix in- reverses the meaning and when the suffix -ate is added, incapacitate means someone has been made unable to “contain” much — like attention, effort, or energy.

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