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incapacitate v.使不能；使不适于 (1) 致残剂一种可使人暂时致残的装置或物质，如平定暴乱时所用的催泪瓦斯 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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英 [ˌɪnkə'pæsɪteɪt] 美 [ˌɪnkə'pæsɪteɪt] (1) A device or substance, such as tear gas, used to incapacitate individuals temporarily, as in riot control. 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. 1[VERB 动词]使无能力；使伤残 If something incapacitates you, it weakens you in some way, so that you cannot do certain things.   [V n]  [FORMAL 正式]A serious fall incapacitated the 68-year-old congressman.一次严重跌伤使这位 68 岁的国会议员丧失了行动能力。incapacitatedHe is incapacitated and can't work.他受伤致残，失去了工作能力。

英语单词	incapacitate
英美音标	英 [ˌɪnkə'pæsɪteɪt] 美 [ˌɪnkə'pæsɪteɪt]
中文释义	v.使不能；使不适于
英语例句	(1) A device or substance, such as tear gas, used to incapacitate individuals temporarily, as in riot control.
中文例句	(1) 致残剂一种可使人暂时致残的装置或物质，如平定暴乱时所用的催泪瓦斯
vocabulary简明	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.
vocabulary扩展	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.
柯林斯解释	1 [VERB 动词]使无能力；使伤残 If something incapacitates you, it weakens you in some way, so that you cannot do certain things. [V n] [FORMAL 正式] A serious fall incapacitated the 68-year-old congressman. 一次严重跌伤使这位 68 岁的国会议员丧失了行动能力。 incapacitated He is incapacitated and can't work. 他受伤致残，失去了工作能力。

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