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incapacitate

 verb
     
in‧ca‧pa‧ci‧tate [transitive] formal
1 to make you too ill or weak to live and work normally:
Her mother has been incapacitated by a fall.
an incapacitating injury
2 to stop a system, piece of equipment etc from working properly:
A successful attack would incapacitate military training camps.
—incapacitation noun [uncountable]
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