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incapacitates

incapacitates is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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.

Questions about incapacitates

What is incapacitates the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Incapacitates is the third-person singular simple present indicative of incapacitate.

Words near incapacitates in the dictionary

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

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