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incapacitations

incapacitations is the plural of incapacitation.

Meaning of incapacitation

Noun

incapacitation (countable and uncountable, plural incapacitations)

  1. The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.
    • I dare not whisper to myself a pension on this side of absolute incapacitation and infirmity, till years have sucked me dry.1822, Charles Lamb, The Best Letters of Charles Lamb, LXVIII. To Wordsworth. March 20
    1. The imprisonment of a would-be offender, which prevents them from offending.
      • Order-maintenance proponents affirmatively promote youth curfews, anti-gang loitering ordinances, and order-maintenance crackdowns as milder alternatives to the theory of incapacitation and increased incarceration.2001, Bernard E. Harcourt, Illusion of Order

Questions about incapacitations

What is incapacitations the plural of?
Incapacitations is the plural of incapacitation.

Words near incapacitations in the dictionary

  1. incapacitate
  2. incapacitated
  3. incapacitates
  4. incapacitating
  5. incapacitation
  6. incapacitations
  7. incapacitative
  8. incapacities
  9. incapacity
  10. incaps
  11. incapsidation

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