What's the difference between incapacitated and stricken?

Incapacitated


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Incapacitate

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.

Stricken


Definition:

  • (p. p. & a.) Struck; smitten; wounded; as, the stricken deer.
  • (n.) Worn out; far gone; advanced. See Strike, v. t., 21.
  • (v. t.) Whole; entire; -- said of the hour as marked by the striking of a clock.
  • () of Strike

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But I know the full story and it’s a bit different from what people see.” The full story is heavy on the extremes of emotion and as the man who took a stricken but much-loved club away from its community, Winkelman knows that his part is that of villain; the war of words will rumble on.
  • (2) Sky News has apologised profusely after one of its presenters was shown rifling through the personal belongings of a stricken passenger at the MH17 crash site.
  • (3) US military aircraft and personnel arrived in Nepal on Sunday and were due to begin helping ferry relief supplies to stricken areas outside the capital.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest An aerial view of the stricken Dharahara tower in Kathmandu.
  • (5) Advancing to the edge of the Ireland penalty area, he tries to pick out Thierry Henry, but his pass is wayward and a panic-stricken, back-pedalling Ireland defence clears.
  • (6) A brief image from the television feed before the gravity of the situation became apparent – as a physio reaches and tries to turn over the stricken midfielder – was widely available, especially in postings from outside the UK, where the match was shown on other networks.
  • (7) The EU, ECB and IMF, the troika of bodies keeping the debt-stricken Greek economy afloat, have signalled in no uncertain terms that they want some €8bn of the nearly €12bn package to come from pension and pay cuts, arguing that this will be the fastest way to get the best results.
  • (8) The leader, a veteran communist, went into the discussions saying their focus would be the EU-IMF financial assistance Cyprus has sought as a result of its banking system’s heavy exposure to debt-stricken Greece.
  • (9) Some health officials believe the blood of survivors may help Ebola stricken patients fight the disease.
  • (10) The CDC and other health agencies have been operating for months on the assumption that Zika causes brain defects, and they have been warning pregnant women to use mosquito repellent, avoid travel to Zika-stricken regions and either abstain from sex or rely on condoms.
  • (11) Torres realises his opponents is stricken and streams past him and into the area.
  • (12) BP has begun drilling two relief wells to halt the oil a day flowing out of the stricken Macondo well.
  • (13) London's mayor said the single currency had been responsible for having "exacerbated" the international financial crisis and warned the coalition government that Britain should not be expected to contribute to any new bailout of the crisis-stricken Greek economy .
  • (14) The family lived near the Cité Soleil slum where hundreds, possibly thousands, have been stricken.
  • (15) Shops in Greece must be free to offer buy-one-get-one-free deals and determine their own product sell-by dates as part of wide ranging reforms to regulations that have prevented the debt-stricken country from recovering after the financial crash, according to a leading thinktank.
  • (16) The lymphocytes of cancer-stricken persons showed an evident rise of the sialic acid content, combined with a shift of the sialic acid distribution to higher O-acetylated derivatives, as compared to the controls.
  • (17) Last week, Brown signed into law a more-than-$1bn plan to fast-track emergency relief to drought-stricken cities and communities, including food aid and drinking water.
  • (18) Kehazaei’s grief-stricken mother, Goldone, said through tears: “I want to donate his organs and I’m worried his heart will fail as well if we keep waiting.” She said the family was “furious” with the Australian government.
  • (19) Being from poverty-stricken rural communities, many would have been in poor physical condition.
  • (20) In an attempt to discourage potential migrants, European ministers cancelled a naval operation aimed at rescuing stricken smugglers’ boats.

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