Incapacitate

Definitions: Incapacitate

Incapacitate

Verb

1. Make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer".

2. Injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident".

Date "incapacitate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1637. (references)

Note: Incapacitate \In`ca*pac"i*tate\, transitive verb. [imperative past participle Incapacitated; present participle verb or noun Incapacitating.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Incapacitate

Synonyms: disable (v), disenable (v), handicap (v), invalid (v). (additional references)

Antonym: enable (v). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Impotence	Render powerless; Adjective: deprive of power; disable, disenable; disarm, incapacitate, disqualify, unfit, invalidate, deaden, cramp, tie the hands; double up, prostrate, paralyze, muzzle, cripple, becripple, maim, lame, hamstring, draw the teeth of; throttle, strangle, garrotte, garrote; ratten, silence, sprain, clip the wings of, put hors de combat, spike the guns; take the wind out of one's sails, scotch the snake, put a spoke in one's wheel; break the neck, break the back; unhinge, unfit; put out of gear.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Incapacitate

English words defined with "incapacitate": chemical operations, chemical warfare ♦ Discapacitate ♦ To bung up. (references)

Specialty definitions using "incapacitate": chemical mine ♦ median incapacitating dose. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Incapacitate" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Romanian (disability, disqualification for, inability, incapacity, ineptitude, insufficiency).

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		The disorder is characterized by recurrences and remissions, and successive recurrences may incapacitate the patient. (references)
		The symptoms vary in severity--from mild cases in which there is restlessness, facial grimacing, and a slight degree of incoordination of movements, to severe cases involving involuntary movements that incapacitate the child. (references)
		Rohypnol, the trade name for flunitrazepam, has been a concern for the last few years because of its abuse as a "date rape" drug. People may unknowingly be given the drug which, when mixed with alcohol, can incapacitate a victim and prevent them from resisting sexual assault. (references)
Travel	Kenya	Passengers on inter-city buses should not accept food or drink from a new acquaintance, even a child, because such food or drink may contain narcotics used to incapacitate a victim and facilitate a robbery. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Incapacitate" is generally used as a lexical verb (infinitive) -- approximately 85.71% of the time. "Incapacitate" is used about 14 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Lexical Verb (infinitive)	85.71%	12	101,599
Lexical Verb (base form)	14.29%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	14	N/A

Expression using "incapacitate": hamstring incapacitate. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "incapacitate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i heq të drejtën, bëj i paaftë (disable, disqualify). (various references)

Arabic		‏عجز (balk, buttock, decrepitude, deficiency, disability, emasculation, failure, famine, gap, inability, incapability, incompetence, infirmity, paralyse, paralysis, paralyze, poorness, posterior, rump, shortage), ‏جعله غير مؤهل, ‏أضعف (attenuate, break, debilitate, decay, decline, depress, detach, diminish, disable, emaciate, emasculate, enervate, enfeeble, fade, geld, hone, hurt, impair, invalidate, jellify, languish, lose weight, macerate, neutralize, pall, perish, reduce, run down, sag, sap, shorten, sink, slacken, slake, soften, subside, thin, waste, weaken). (various references)

Bulgarian		възпрепятствувам (forbid, hamper, inhibit, prohibit), лишавам от права (disable, disqualify), правя неспособен (disable, indispose, lame, unfit), правя негоден (crock, disable, disqualify, indispose, lame, unfit), изваждам от строя (disable, sideline, take out). (various references)

Chinese		� 能力 (incapacitated, incapacitating, incompetence). (various references)

Czech		zneschopnit, zbavit práva na co. (various references)

Farsi		محجورکردن (Interdict), ناقابل ساختن , ناتوان ساختن , سلب صلاحیت کردن از (Disqualify), ازکارافتادن (Conk, Stop), بی نیروساختن . (various references)

Finnish		tehdä kelpaamattomaksi. (various references)

French		rendre incapable de travailler, rendre incapable, affaiblir (invalidate). (various references)

German		unfähig machen (disable, to disable, to incapacitate). (various references)

Greek		κάνω ανίκανο, κάμνω ανίκανο, αχρηστεύω (disable, disuse, nullify, supersede). (various references)

Hebrew		לשלול יכולת, לשלול כושר. (various references)

Hungarian		kikapcsol (cut off, declutch, shut off, switch off, to cut out, to disengage, to incapacitate, to shut off, to switch off, to trip, to turn off, to unclasp, to uncouple, to unhitch, to unhook, unclasp, ungear), cselekvõképtelenné tesz. (various references)

Italian		inabilitare (cut down, disable), rendere incapace (disable, get obstinate), dichiarare incapace. (various references)

Manx		jannoo gyn bree (abrogate, abrogation, annul, annulment, void), anlheiltaghey. (various references)

Pig Latin		incapacitateay

Portuguese		incapacitar (disable, disenable, disentomb, disquiet, Nobby, unfit), desqualificar (disqualify, to declass), de espírito limitado (illiberal, unintelligent). (various references)

Romanian		face incapabil (disable). (various references)

Russian		лишать права (debar, disentitle), делать неспособным (disable, disenable). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		onesposobiti (cripple, disable, hamstring, indispose, spike, unfit). (various references)

Spanish		incapacitar (disable, disqualify, lame, unfit). (various references)

Swedish		göra oförmögen. (various references)

Turkish		yapamaz hale getirmek, alıkoymak (check, constrain, deforce, delay, detain, disable, hinder, hold, hold up, intercept, keep, keep from, keep in, preclude, restrain, retain, retard, stay, stick, stop, withhold), aciz bırakmak (strike down). (various references)

Ukranian		робити нездатним (disable, disenable), обмежувати у праві. (various references)

Welsh		analluogi (disable, disenable). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "incapacitate": incapacitated, incapacitates. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Incapacitate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incapcitate. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "incapacitate" (pronounced i'nkupa"sutā't)
6	-a" s u t ā' t	acetate.
5	-s u t ā' t	necessitate, resuscitate.
4	-u t ā' t	agitate, amputate, annotate, cogitate, debilitate, decapitate, facilitate, gravitate, hesitate, imitate, irritate, levitate, meditate, militate, precipitate, premeditate, rehabilitate, vegetate.
3	-t ā' t	devastate, downstate, mutate, overstate, potentate, prostate, punctate, rotate, tristate, understate.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-a-c-c-e-i-i-n-p-t-t"
	-2 letters: anticipate, capacitate.
	-3 letters: acceptant, tactician.
	-4 letters: actiniae, apatetic, capitate, pancetta, patinate, pittance.
	-5 letters: acapnia, actinia, actinic, apatite, atactic, cantata, captain, ectatic, nictate, panacea, patient, patinae, peccant, picante, tetanic, titania, titanic.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-a-c-c-e-i-i-n-p-t-t"
	+1 letter: incapacitated, incapacitates.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.