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incapacitate sb/sth
常用在医学或法律语境中，表示使某人失去正常功能。
The disease incapacitated her.
这种疾病使她丧失了能力。
使丧失能力；使无法行动
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使丧失能力；使无法行动
make someone unable to do something
The disease incapacitated her.
这种疾病使她丧失了能力。
使某人或某物无法做某事；使丧失能力。
To make someone or something incapable of doing something; to disable.
使某人无资格；取消资格。
To make someone ineligible; to disqualify.
incapacitate
Base
原形
incapacitates
3rd person
第三人称单数
incapacitating
-ing
现在分词
incapacitated
Past
过去式
incapacitated
Past participle
过去分词
The injury incapacitates him for work.
这次受伤使他无法工作。
The accident incapacitated her for a month.
事故让她一个月无法行动。
The virus is incapacitating many people.
这种病毒正在使许多人丧失能力。
The disease has incapacitated the entire team.
疾病已使整个团队无法工作。
The surgery will incapacitate him temporarily.
手术将使他暂时丧失能力。
使无能力，使伤残
The severe headache incapacitated him for the whole afternoon.
严重的头痛使他整个下午都无法行动。
A broken leg incapacitates a runner for months.
腿骨折会使跑步者几个月无法行动。
The virus is capable of incapacitating the body's defense system.
这种病毒能够使身体的防御系统失效。
常用在医学或法律语境中，表示使某人失去正常功能。
The disease incapacitated her.
这种疾病使她丧失了能力。
from doing sth 结构表示阻止某人做某事。
His illness incapacitated him from working.
他的病使他无法工作。
被动语态常用于描述某人被某物致残或失去能力。
She was temporarily incapacitated by the flu.
她因流感暂时失去了行动能力。
Not this
The accident incapacitated him to work.
Use this
The accident incapacitated him from working.
动词 incapacitate 后需接 from + 动名词，表示‘使某人无法做某事’，不能接不定式。
Not this
He suffered a temporary incapacitate.
Use this
He suffered a temporary incapacity.
incapacitate 是动词，不可用作名词；表示‘无能力’的名词应为 incapacity。
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使敌人丧失战斗力
The troops were ordered to incapacitate the enemy rather than kill them.
部队奉命使敌人丧失战斗力，而不是杀死他们。
因病无法行动；因病丧失能力
She was incapacitated by illness for several weeks.
她因病几个星期无法行动。
身体上丧失能力的；无法行动的
The injury left him physically incapacitated, and he needed help with daily tasks.
这次受伤使他身体上丧失能力，日常生活需要帮助。
致残的伤病；使人丧失能力的伤害
An incapacitating injury ended her career as a dancer.
一次致残的伤病终结了她的舞蹈生涯。
使车辆无法运行
Spike strips can quickly incapacitate a vehicle during a police chase.
在警方追捕中，钉条可以迅速使车辆无法行驶。
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把 incapacitate 拆成 in（不）+ capacitate，联想 capacity（能力）：能力被抽走，人就 incapacitate（丧失能力、动弹不得）。
语域：formal 常见场景：法律或正式文件、医学或军事报告 incapacitate 是正式用词，通常用于书面或正式场合，表示使人或事物丧失能力；在日常口语中较少使用，更常说 disable 或 put out of action。
These words share the spelling ending -itate and the unstressed final /ɪteɪt/, but none fully rhymes with incapacitate /ˌɪnkəˈpæsɪteɪt/, whose main stress is on /pæ/; each lookalike differs in its stressed vowel or the consonant before the ending.
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