incapacitating

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Related to incapacitating: deteriorating, squandered, brought up

in·ca·pac·i·tate

(ĭn′kə-păs′ĭ-tāt′)

tr.v. in·ca·pac·i·tat·ed, in·ca·pac·i·tat·ing, in·ca·pac·i·tates

1. To deprive of strength or ability; disable.

2. To make legally ineligible; disqualify.

in′ca·pac′i·ta′tion n.

incapacitating

(ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪˌteɪtɪŋ)

adj

depriving someone of power, strength, or capacity

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Adj.

incapacitating - that cripples or disables or incapacitates; "a crippling injury"

crippling, disabling

unhealthful - detrimental to good health; "unhealthful air pollution"; "unhealthful conditions in old apartments with peeling lead-based paint"

Translations

incapacitating

[ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪteɪtɪŋ] ADJ [illness] → que incapacita
the pain is a nuisance but not incapacitating → el dolor es molesto, pero no me incapacita

incapacitating

adj incapacitante

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Tess Durbeyfield's experience was of this incapacitating kind.

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The ordinary-responsibility account holds the culpably incapacitated agent responsible for the original incapacitating act [A.

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Results showed that 2,451 children suffered incapacitating injuries or died in bicycle-motor vehicle crashes during the study period.

Research backs laws that would make helmets necessary for bicyclists

The safe, effective dose of an incapacitant varies from person to person; at the average incapacitating dose, more sensitive individuals, those with compromised health, or those unable to flee could be permanently injured or killed.

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This is a more effective bullet in the context of dealing with a suicide bomber as there is more chance of incapacitating a subject with a single shot.

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Kennedy's Addison's disease, Woodrow Wilson's incapacitating stroke that effectively resulted in his wife assuming the responsibility of the office, and much more.

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Perhaps the best evidence of topical aminoglycoside ototoxicity is seen when intratympanic gentamicin is administered for the treatment of incapacitating Meniere's disease.

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And if some people diagnosed as schizophrenics do in fact suffer from an incapacitating brain disease--a possibility Szasz concedes--presumably they too should be held less culpable than people in full possession of their faculties.