incapacitating

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.