incapacitate

“Viruses that are extremely lethal often tend to self-contain because they quickly kill or incapacitate their hosts,” said James, who now works with Australia’s Southern Cross University.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Officer 4 said doing so would have been difficult and more likely to put himself and his colleague at risk by failing to incapacitate Bosh.

From BBC ● Mar. 17, 2026

Electroshock weapons are designed to temporarily incapacitate suspects with a shock before police detain them.

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

Neither of the two collisions “was hard enough to incapacitate or disable” Contreras, said sheriff’s spokesperson Gloria Huerta.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 10, 2024

I commanded the voice before terror could incapacitate me.

From "Twilight" by Stephenie Meyer

You know, that thing that occasionally incapacitates him with guilt.

From Salon ● May 15, 2023

Unless boxers are allowed to fight until one physically incapacitates the other — which is the way they actually competed at the ancient Olympic Games in 688 B.C. — decisions are an unfortunate necessity.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 1, 2021

“Most experts agree that if a GMD or EMP incapacitates an electrical grid, the grid will likely remain in a failed state from weeks to months,” the report said.

From Washington Times ● Dec. 5, 2018

Effective to a range of 30 feet, the Alternative incapacitates a person but would very rarely penetrate the skin, he said, citing ballistics tests using leather chamois, foam and gel to simulate the human body.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 3, 2015

He looks on love as superfluous, indeed he is convinced that it incapacitates him from what he regards as his proper life-task.

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Henry Theophilus Finck

At least 19 states, including New York, have a higher bar for the level of intoxication required to deem someone incapacitated and unable to consent.

From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2026

According to the Associated Press, 19 states say that an intoxicated person is only considered incapacitated — and therefore unable to consent — if they were given drugs or alcohol without knowing.

From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026

When is it time to seek legal advice and put processes in place for all contingencies — for example, what happens if you fall and become incapacitated?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 24, 2026

Related: ‘We fear financial exploitation’: Who will manage our finances if my wife and I become incapacitated?

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 11, 2026

He'd ignored the rumblings from the press and others who were concerned that Garfield was too incapacitated to serve.

From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow

The Timms report finds that there’s been a surge in Brits under age 40 collecting benefits for incapacitating ADHD, autism, anxiety or depression.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 10, 2026

CS spray is a man-made incapacitating gas - exposure to it causes a burning sensation in the eyes and watering.

From BBC ● Mar. 18, 2026

Hahn takes the role to complex emotional heights, infusing the character with a wicked sense of humor and incapacitating vulnerability.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 7, 2023

"It looks like a focal neurologic event. That doesn't mean it's incapacitating, it doesn't mean he can't serve, but it means that somebody ought to wake up and say, 'Wow! This looks like a seizure.'"

From Salon ● Sep. 11, 2023

This represents the kinds of things that must be done after the fact, in efforts to compensate for the incapacitating effects of certain diseases whose course one is unable to do very much about.

From "The Lives of a Cell" by Lewis Thomas