incapacitates

present tense third-person singular of incapacitate

Example Sentences

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Recent Examples of incapacitates Lorenzo confronts and incapacitates Pepe, Sonia’s main ally, before facing Sonia herself. Isabella Wandermurem, Time, 24 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for incapacitates
Verb
  • This paralyzes executives and creates fatigue.
    Nick Ryan, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
  • The smaller wasp quickly stings the spider, injecting its powerful venom that does not kill but permanently paralyzes it.
    Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 17 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • This inefficiency is invisible during small-scale development tests but completely cripples an application’s performance under the heavy load of a real production environment.
    Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 19 Sep. 2025
  • An ongoing alien siege cripples the world’s militaries, infrastructure, and communication centers but Will can run Premiere Pro, FaceTime, WhatsApp, Microsoft Teams, Zoom, and remote control a Tesla all at the same time.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 12 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • For Allen, this legal tool disproportionately undermines Black communities, eroding generational wealth and disconnecting families from their neighborhoods.
    Essence, Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The survey also undermines the argument that tariffs will simply be a one-time price adjustment.
    Matt Egan, CNN Money, 24 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • After Wednesday disables the machine with an axe, Isaac’s ability no longer works, and Thing attacks him.
    Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 4 Sep. 2025
  • To be specific, this mode disables custom actions, changes backlighting to a single color, and prevents profile switching.
    George Yang, PC Magazine, 7 Aug. 2025
Verb
  • Automobility directly or indirectly causes one in 34 deaths annually, injures more than 100 million people a year, and has killed as many people as the two World Wars combined.
    Henrietta Moore, Fortune, 16 Sep. 2025
  • If a dog that has not been officially declared dangerous severely injures or kills a person when unprovoked, authorities may confiscate the dog, and the dog’s owner is liable for the incident.
    Amanda Rosa, Miami Herald, 8 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Set against Mumbai’s relentless pulse, their delicate connection faces tests as personal histories, desires, and wounds resurface.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 2 Sep. 2025
  • No policy wounds Tibetan dignity more profoundly than attempts to co-opt its spiritual and institutional heart.
    Tenzin Dorjee, Foreign Affairs, 1 Sep. 2025

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“Incapacitates.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/incapacitates. Accessed 6 Oct. 2025.

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