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to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
the malfunctioning of a single component can incapacitate the engine
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to cause severe or permanent injury to
the stroke left her completely incapacitated
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Recent Examples of incapacitated
Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 6 July 2024
The jewelry-store duel is very Kill Bill, with the two women tossing out insults before attacking brutally and relentlessly: throwing each other around glass cases, using the shop’s offerings as weaponry, and avoiding the incapacitated store owner.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Michael S. Roth, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2024
But today, forms of dementia like frontotemporal dementia, which affects the temporal lobes of the brain, have left her permanently incapacitated.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Adjective
There was no 25th Amendment to allow for the replacement of an incapacitated president as there is now.
—Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 6 July 2024
The jewelry-store duel is very Kill Bill, with the two women tossing out insults before attacking brutally and relentlessly: throwing each other around glass cases, using the shop’s offerings as weaponry, and avoiding the incapacitated store owner.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 6 Dec. 2024
Verb
And he was fascinated by how people thought to be incapacitated could suddenly reveal deep resources for feeling, thinking, acting.
—Michael S. Roth, The Atlantic, 16 Dec. 2024
But today, forms of dementia like frontotemporal dementia, which affects the temporal lobes of the brain, have left her permanently incapacitated.
—Jeetendr Sehdev, Forbes, 27 Nov. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for incapacitated
Adjective
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Several groups, including those advocating for military veterans, the elderly and disabled people, have intervened in that case and requested that a larger panel of judges from the 5th Circuit reconsider the decision.—
Alex Riggins,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
14 Mar. 2025
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The move could jeopardize public access to benefits for millions of elderly and disabled Americans who rely on the SSA's phone service to submit claims and make transactions.—
Faisal Kutty,
Newsweek,
12 Mar. 2025
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When McCarthy was ousted in October 2023, the House was paralyzed for three weeks before Republicans coalesced around Johnson.—
Riley Beggin,
USA TODAY,
3 Jan. 2025
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This 35-year old man, paralyzed by polio, was condemned for the rest of his life to be a prisoner of the machine compressing and releasing his lungs.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
28 Dec. 2024
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His vengeance included turning Michigan State in for NCAA violations, leading to probation that crippled the program until the late 1970s.—
Joe Rexrode,
The Athletic,
31 Dec. 2024
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As the city litigated and revised the environmental impact report, two devastating storms in December 2023 and February 2024 — the same series that crippled San Diego’s Ocean Beach Pier — substantially damaged the wharf.—
Noah Haggerty,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Dec. 2024
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Lincoln Hospital was where Shirley Vasquez and all the other parents, like her, took their children when they were injured or ill.—
Cary Goodman,
New York Daily News,
5 Jan. 2025
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At least 35 people were injured in the incident, officials said, and at the time some were hospitalized in critical condition.—
Emily Mae Czachor,
CBS News,
5 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Threat level: Cover your plants, drip your faucets and bring in your pets — and check on your neighbors, especially ones who are infirm.—
Asher Price,
Axios,
18 Feb. 2025
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With their branches weighted down by snow, his evergreens are infirm but not yet fallen—still here after the storm.—
Alex Greenberger,
ARTnews.com,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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Francis' feeble voice, discernible through his labored breaths and in his native Spanish, was recorded Thursday from the hospital and broadcast to the faithful in St. Peter's Square who had gathered for the nightly recitation of the rosary prayer.—
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arkansasonline.com,
7 Mar. 2025
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When experienced all at once, these features can further shake an emerging adult’s already feeble sense of stability.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
23 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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President Donald Trump wrote on Monday that Biden's pardons for the January 6 committee are invalid because they were signed with an autopen.—
Hannah Parry,
Newsweek,
19 Mar. 2025
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And on Sunday, the president amplified the threat against the Jan. 6 investigators, saying their pardons were invalid because Biden had used an autopen to sign them.—
Mychael Schnell,
The Hill,
17 Mar. 2025
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Murena Pixel Tablet And Third-Party Apps The ecosystem for Android tablets is weaker than that of Android smartphones.—
Ewan Spence,
Forbes,
23 Mar. 2025
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The health infrastructure that the U.S. would have to marshal against them is already weak.—
Katherine J. Wu,
The Atlantic,
21 Mar. 2025
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“Incapacitated.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incapacitated. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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