What's the difference between incapacitate and invalidate?

Incapacitate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To deprive of capacity or natural power; to disable; to render incapable or unfit; to disqualify; as, his age incapacitated him for war.
  • (v. t.) To deprive of legal or constitutional requisites, or of ability or competency for the performance of certain civil acts; to disqualify.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The CCK 8-induced analgesia or hyperalgesia was not seen in the tail flick test and was not associated with motor incapacitation or any other noticeable side effects.
  • (2) Although most of the cognitive symptoms were mild to moderate in severity, they were incapacitating to these individuals in their usual work.
  • (3) Recent progress in producing pharmacologic defenses suggests that humans can be largely protected from the lethal and prolonged incapacitating effects of these compounds on a chemical battlefield.
  • (4) At the time of the operation all patients were socially incapacitated by their epilepsy; this was most pronounced in males, of whom 30 per cent were institutionalized and 32 per cent were receiving disablement pension; at follow-up the figures were 6 per cent and 52 per cent, respectively.
  • (5) He believed that, even if Monis was paralysed, the explosive may have been connected to a “dead man’s switch” which would automatically detonate the bomb if the operator becomes incapacitated.
  • (6) It is characterized by remissions and is usually not incapacitating.
  • (7) Police officers in the US are trained to shoot to kill, not incapacitate.
  • (8) The number of patients disabled and their degree of disability seems to justifiy surgical treatment in patients with frequent and incapacitating attacks of vertigo.
  • (9) This suggests that such a pretreatment combination may prove very efficacious against soman-induced lethality and incapacitation in higher species.
  • (10) Associated with colonization were bladder incontinence, deteriorating or terminal clinical status, inability to walk or perform activities of daily living and incapacitation due to neoplastic, respiratory and cardiac disease (P less than 0.05).
  • (11) The relative lack of incapacitating side-effects of phenothiazines should provide an attractive change for the clinical oncologist.
  • (12) Barnes said Monis knew what he was doing and was not incapacitated by a psychiatric condition.
  • (13) The patient (Joyce) was a young mother whose very severe eczema and asthma were accompanied by an incapacitating depression.
  • (14) The authors stress the frequent bilateralisation of the disease and the need to reserve vestibular neurectomy for cases of longstanding incapacitating vertigo, resistant to all other treatment, as well as the value of surgery on the endolymphatic surgery provided that the criteria of indication are complied with.
  • (15) Two Chinese populations over age 15 were surveyed as to the point prevalence of "incapacitating" headaches in an urban population of 1,525 persons and a rural one of 1,203.
  • (16) Intracerebroventricular injection of the moderate dose reliably reduced frequency of pinning while the higher dose was severely incapacitating and the low dose was without effect.
  • (17) Their refusal to condemn him reinforces myths and misinformation about rape – they don't seem to understand that the law is very clear that if someone is too drunk or otherwise incapacitated to consent, it is rape."
  • (18) Transfection of protoplasts with low (2 micrograms) amounts of delta 5'RNA-2, together with transcripts of wild-type RNA-1 and -3, not only incapacitated the replication of RNA-2 but also significantly interfered in trans with the synthesis and accumulation of the other viral RNAs.
  • (19) But at this moment of the final parting, my heart is heavy with sorrow and grief.” On death: “There is an end to everything and I want mine to come as quickly and painlessly as possible, not with me incapacitated, half in coma in bed and with a tube going into my nostrils and down to my stomach.” “Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me to the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up.
  • (20) Sudden cardiac incapacitation occurring during critically stressful circumstances in men engaged in a variety of occupations may compromise public safety.

Invalidate


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To render invalid; to weaken or lessen the force of; to destroy the authority of; to render of no force or effect; to overthrow; as, to invalidate an agreement or argument.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Especially in the old patients (over 70 years) the incisional hernias represents an invalidating pathology whose treatment, for the high incidence of associated diseases of respiratory and cardiocirculatory apparatus in the aged, offers difficulties connected both to surgical methods and to the perioperative evaluation and preparation of patients.
  • (2) Thus neither the presence of changes in RS-T segment or T wave nor the absence of QRS changes are mandatory for the diagnosis of SEMI; this invalidates the common assumption that the diagnosis is not justified unless these conditions are met.
  • (3) It was found that good results had 53.2% of the patients, 12.8% of the patients had limited working capacity, 4.6% of the patients became invalids.
  • (4) Awareness of problems that may arise in the physician-patient relationship may prevent such outcomes as suicide, anxiety, hypochondriasis, invalidism and psychotic symptoms.
  • (5) It imposes a standard of logical reductionism and methodological purity that not only violates the nature of psychoanalytic knowledge, but imposes an invalid standard of verification and scientific confirmation.
  • (6) In this event it may be possible to prevent invalidating effects on fertility and chronic pelvic pain.
  • (7) Lutzomyia may be defined geographically, but the use of geographical distribution in taxonomy leads to circular biogeographical arguments, and is invalid.
  • (8) 36% of the group had abstained from further drug taking, 27% were taking them periodically, 32% had to be treated again and 5% had deteriorated (trend towards invalidism).
  • (9) Jim Devine, Labour MP for Livingston, was reportedly under investigation for invoices he submitted for electrical work worth more than £2,000 from a company with an allegedly fake address and an invalid VAT number.
  • (10) Sources of invalidity may relate to subject factors or to circumstances under which data are collected.
  • (11) The postulated interference of therapeutic levels of alpha-methyldopa on the phosphotungstate uric acid method was invalid.
  • (12) These recent findings invalidate our previous conclusion that isozyme 3a is not induced by ethanol treatment of rabbits.
  • (13) Respecting the frequency of invalidity this cancer pretends the second place among these diseases.
  • (14) Any criminal cases which rested on acquisition of data through the directive could also be called into question, because the court decided that "the declaration of invalidity takes effect from the date on which the directive entered into force" – that is, 2006.
  • (15) It is emphasized that various effects of anaesthetics unrelated to their anaesthetic properties may obscure or even invalidate results obtained with drugs acting on the peripheral sympathetic nervous system.
  • (16) In clinical trials, information and consent problems usually relate to the possibility that information given the participant will invalidate the findings.
  • (17) But the appeals court decided that while the warrants were defective in some respects it was not enough to declare them invalid.
  • (18) She emphasizes the mortality life expectancy at birth, abortion rate, work incapacity on account of illness and injury, morbidity from diabetes and tuberculosis, the trend of newly detected malignant tumours and causes of invalidity.
  • (19) Trainmen and railroad clerks were used as reference cohorts.The engineers had relatively high invalidity and mortality rates in comparison to the reference groups, especially with respect to cardiovascular diseases and malignant tumors.
  • (20) Results were invalidated if calculations were based on initial slope of the wash-out curves.Topical application of beta-methasone valerate in a reduction in cutaneous blood flow as measured by the intracutaneous technique with curve resolution, whereas no effect could be demonstrated when calculations were based on the initial slopes of the curves.