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Causing a loss of energy or strength
“I sweat like a racehorse, and very dark thoughts mingled with incapacitating spasms of pain.”
Causing, or related to, paralysis or immobility
Cause incapacitation without causing death
Present participle for to cause to be immobilized or ineffective
“As in the case of the forearm, attempts to immediately incapacitate an adversary by directing thrusts or cuts to leg muscles may not have been particularly effective.”
Present participle for to cause a physical injury or debility to
“The employer considered that the employee's leg was in such a poor varicose-vein condition that a further injury would incapacitate him.”
Present participle for to destroy or disrupt by means of sabotage
Present participle for to make ineligible, as for entry to an examination
Present participle for to cleanse, typically by removing contaminants from
Present participle for to cause pain or injury to
Present participle for to weaken an armed opposition, such as a military or army
Present participle for to dope something or someone, especially by giving it a drug
Present participle for to subdue or hurt physically or violently
Present participle for to violently subdue or incapacitate someone, rendering them unconscious or severely injured
Present participle for to succeed in killing, destroying or defeating
Present participle for to disturb mentally or emotionally
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