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incapacitated

incapacitated is the simple past of incapacitate.

Meaning of incapacitate

Verb

incapacitate (third-person singular simple present incapacitates, present participle incapacitating, simple past and past participle incapacitated)

  1. (transitive) To make someone or something incapable of doing something; to disable.
    • The police officer was incapacitated by a blow to the head.
    Synonyms:
    prostrate
    1. (transitive) To imprison a potential offender and thereby prevent them from offending.
      • Wilson's principal motivation for situation-oriented policies was the desire to change the real world by proposing politically practicable policies. And his principle prescription was to incapacitate a larger number of habitual offenders.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order
  2. (transitive) To make someone ineligible; to disqualify.

Adjective

incapacitated (comparative more incapacitated, superlative most incapacitated)

  1. Rendered unable to act; restricted from taking action.

Forms of incapacitated

comparativemore incapacitated
superlativemost incapacitated

Words formed from incapacitated

Questions about incapacitated

What does incapacitated mean?
Incapacitated means rendered unable to act; restricted from taking action.
What is incapacitated the simple past of?
Incapacitated is the simple past of incapacitate.
What part of speech is incapacitated?
Incapacitated is an adjective.

Words near incapacitated in the dictionary

  1. incapaciousness
  2. incapacitance
  3. incapacitant
  4. incapacitants
  5. incapacitate
  6. incapacitated
  7. incapacitates
  8. incapacitating
  9. incapacitation
  10. incapacitations
  11. incapacitative

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