incapacitating
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- adjective
- /ˌɪn.kəˈpæs.ɪ.teɪ.tɪŋ/
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incapacitante
- All respondents were ambulatory, free of major incapacitating illnesses, and showed no gross signs of altered brain function as defined by poor performance on several cognitive measures (Turner, Tobin, & Lieberman, 1972).
- incapacitating illnesses
It is it, it shoots out these prongs of sort of incapacitating voltage.
- It is it, it shoots out these prongs of sort of incapacitating voltage.
Examples
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Bradykinesia is one of the most incapacitating PD motor symptoms, and it is used to describe the pathological slowness of movement.
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It helped to heal an agonizing, incapacitating situation.
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It was painful, disfiguring, incapacitating and often fatal.
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A serious adverse event was any event that was fatal, life-threatening, or permanently or temporarily incapacitating or disabling, or that resulted in hospitalization.
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He took them out to restaurants and nightclubs in Washington, D.C., and taught them how to deal with a problem that proved psychologically incapacitating for many of them: the unwanted attentions they received from curious, often boorish people who stared at them and asked questions about how they lost their hands and how the hooks worked.
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The stress of losing her job had an incapacitating effect on her daily life.
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His incapacitating injury during the game forced him to sit out for the rest of the season.
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Many people suffer from incapacitating anxieties that prevent them from enjoying everyday activities.
Synonyms
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Causing serious weakness that stops normal daily activities
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Causing very serious harm that makes a person, thing, or plan stop working
Making a person unable to do everyday things because of injury or illness
Make people or things stop working
An action that stops a person or thing from moving
Causing a loss of strength and energy so a person cannot do normal activities
Antonyms
How Disabling
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Surface Forms
Morphology
incapacitating = incapacitate (semi-transparent) = in + capacit + ate + ing
The adjective is a straightforward participial formation from the verb 'incapacitate' with '-ing'.
Etymology
The word incapacitating is made from the prefix in- meaning 'not' and the root capable meaning 'able', so it literally means 'not able'. That's why something called incapacitating makes a person or thing unable to work or act normally.