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Incapacitate v. t. (past & past part. incapacitated; pres. part. incapacitating)

To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.

(Law) To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify. "It absolutely incapacitated them from holding rank, office, function, or property."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... between and among them. The first example is "Overwhelming Force," the doctrine and concept shaping today's American force structure. The aims of this doctrine are to apply massive or overwhelming force as quickly as possible on an adversary in order to disarm, incapacitate, or render the enemy militarily impotent with as few casualties and losses to ourselves and to non-combatants as possible. The superiority of American forces, technically and operationally, ...

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... for castle guard, if the knight be willing to perform the service in person, or by another able-bodied man; and if the knight be in the field himself, by the king's command, he shall be exempted from all other service of this nature. No vassal shall be allowed to sell so much of his land as to incapacitate himself from performing ...

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