(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.
Stun
Definition:
(v. t.) To make senseless or dizzy by violence; to render senseless by a blow, as on the head.
(v. t.) To dull or deaden the sensibility of; to overcome; especially, to overpower one's sense of hearing.
(v. t.) To astonish; to overpower; to bewilder.
(n.) The condition of being stunned.
Example Sentences:
(1) The dispute is rooted in the recent erosion of many of the freedoms Egyptians won when they rose up against Mubarak in a stunning, 18-day uprising.
(2) The brightly lit ice palaces themselves are stunning, inside and out, and the sporting facilities have been rightly praised by almost all the athletes.
(3) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(4) Nevertheless between 18% and 20% appear to have done so – a stunning result for the far right.
(5) And as for this job, well, not that I have a choice but … fuck it, I quit.” A stunned colleague then told viewers: “All right we apologise for that … we’ll, we’ll be right back.” The station later apologised to viewers on Twitter: KTVA 11 News (@ktva) Viewers, we sincerely apologize for the inappropriate language used by a KTVA reporter on the air tonight.
(6) In the ECMO patient, cardiac stun syndrome and electromechanical dissociation can be confused with low circuit volume, pneumothorax, or cardiac tamponade.
(7) Alternatively, a loss of collagen tethers or decline in matrix tensile strength can be responsible for regional or global transformations in myocardial architecture and function seen in the reperfused ("stunned") myocardium and in dilated (idiopathic) cardiopathy.
(8) The speed of the advance and strength of the weaponry used has stunned the autonomous enclave.
(9) Considerable evidence indicates that calcium antagonists administered prior to coronary occlusion attenuate postischemic stunning in the canine model: verapamil, diltiazem, and amlodipine have been shown to restore contractile function to 50-100% of baseline values during the initial hours following relief of ischemia.
(10) In models of prolonged ischemia (2 hours) followed by reperfusion, we have not observed a beneficial effect of scavengers on stunned myocardium.
(11) The present study tested the hypothesis that a reduction in calcium flux across the sarcolemma or the sarcoplasmic reticulum at the onset of reperfusion could attenuate subsequent mechanical "stunning" (postischemic myocardial dysfunction).
(12) Thus myocardial "stunning" is a nonuniform phenomenon with maximal severity in the subendocardium.
(13) The Tasmanian writer said he was “stunned” to be in the running for the prestigious UK-based literary prize, which for the first time has been opened to authors of any nationality.
(14) The draft released last Monday had been hailed by some church observers and gay rights groups as “a stunning change” in how the Catholic hierarchy talked about gay people.
(15) In fact, I'm stunned at how good the place that I am in is.
(16) Myocardial "Stunning" is characterized by a reversible post-ischemic contractile dysfunction despite full restoration of blood flow.
(17) There's a stunning atmosphere in Wembley tonight, one even the Sheffield Wednesday band can't bugger up.
(18) It was similar between dog and rabbit hearts (about 40%) and was not significantly affected by enhanced contractility with calcium, epinephrine, or cardiac cooling, or by depressed contractility with propranolol, decreased coronary perfusion pressure, or stunned myocardium.
(19) RBS starts charging financial customers to park their cash Read more The disposal of W&G is proving troublesome and expensive for RBS, which stunned the City last month by admitting it was abandoning its attempt to float the business on the stock market.
(20) He tells an amusing story of how exhilarated, if stunned, he was by completing three skeleton runs at Lillehammer.