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• v  make unable to perform a certain action
• v  injure permanently
• s  lacking in or deprived of strength or power

• He was very reluctant to sign an enduring power of attorney to empower me, or my brother, to make decisions about his care and my mom's if he were incapacitated.
• Investigators found five cases of it being performed on legally incapacitated offenders who were not capable of making an informed decision.
• The PA constitution requires that if the president is incapacitated, his post would be temporarily filled by the Speaker of the Palestinian legislature.

• disable
• disenable
• incapacitate
• invalid
• handicap
• helpless

• enable

News & Articles

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• PSL officer rescues incapacitated driver
  A Port St. Lucie police sergeant's quick thinking helped prevent a car crash and saved the life of an incapacitated driver in Port St. Lucie, according to authorities.
  June 10, 2013 - WFLX FOX 29
• PSL cop rescues incapacitated driver
  A Port St. Lucie sergeant displays true heroism after saving the life of an incapacitated driver by helping prevent a possible car crash, according to authorities.
  June 10, 2013 - ABC Action News Tampa Bay
• Incapacitated voters can still vote in city CIP election
  Registered voters in Washington County who become physically incapacitated after 5 p.m. on June 4 won’t have to miss the June 11 special election for the City of Bartlesville, County Election Board Secretary Yvonne House said today. House said state law permits registered voters who will be unable to go to the polls because they become incapacitated after that time to vote on an emergency basis ...
  June 5, 2013 - Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise

Quotes

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• Pete Domenici in Forbes
  What we know is that, in previous terrorist attacks - for example, the first attack against the World Trade Center - we were able to arrest those responsible, put them on trial. They are currently in US prisons, incapacitated. And the fact that the... Barack Obama http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHQ0yfPaaXFGqLKymRgcres0I2nuA International Herald Tribune http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/17/america/McCain-Obama.php&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHZdVpdNwLxtaAty5VIurtEDXyMcg Jun 17, 2008 50488 68207 incapacitated The progress of this disease is apparently erratic and unpredictable. It may well be that seven years from now, it will be stable," Domenici said. "On the other hand, it may also be that the disease will have incapacitated me. That's...
• John McCain in International Herald Tribune
  He didn't drink at work, and was never completely incapacitated by his weakness,McCain wrote in "Faith of My Fathers." "But he would often ease his way into social settings by drinking too much. And, as with most people, drinking changed...