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INCAPACITATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Injure permanently

Example:

He was disabled in a car accident

Synonyms:

disable; handicap; incapacitate; invalid

Classified under:

Verbs of grooming, dressing and bodily care

Hypernyms (to "incapacitate" is one way to...):

injure; wound (cause injuries or bodily harm to)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "incapacitate"):

hock (disable by cutting the hock)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

Sense 2

Meaning:

Make unable to perform a certain action

Example:

disable this command on your computer

Synonyms:

disable; disenable; incapacitate

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "incapacitate" is one way to...):

alter; change; modify (cause to change; make different; cause a transformation)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "incapacitate"):

lay up (disable or confine, as with an illness)

nobble (disable by drugging)

pinion (cut the wings off (of birds))

confine; constrain; hold; restrain (to close within bounds, or otherwise limit or deprive of free movement)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody

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