verb
- makes someone unable to work or do things normally, especially due to illness or injury
Usage: third person singular present tense
Examples
- The injury incapacitates him for several weeks.
- Severe arthritis incapacitates many elderly people.
- The flu incapacitates workers across the office.
- A broken leg incapacitates the athlete for the season.
- The medication incapacitates patients temporarily.
- Chronic pain incapacitates her ability to concentrate.