Front | incapacitate |
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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. All forms of 'incapacitate' will appear on average once every 5023 pages. capaciousness incapacitate capacious capacitate capacity incapacity incapacitated incapacitating |
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