INCAPACITATED Synonyms: 185 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

Definition of incapacitated

as in disabled

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verb

past tense of incapacitate

as in paralyzed

to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move the malfunctioning of a single component can incapacitate the engine

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as in crippled

to cause severe or permanent injury to the stroke left her completely incapacitated

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Recent Examples of incapacitated

Adjective

You have not been declared by a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be either totally mentally incapacitated or partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote. — Briauna Brown, CBS News, 28 Sep. 2026 Israeli President Isaac Herzog pardoned a soldier who shot and killed an incapacitated Palestinian attacker in the occupied West Bank in 2016, despite opposition from the military’s chief of staff. — Oren Liebermann, CNN Money, 20 Sep. 2026

Verb

The law distinguishes that from being physically helpless or incapacitated by drugs administered without consent. — Hallie Golden, Chicago Tribune, 3 Oct. 2026 In 2023, Kim was legally declared incapacitated after her cardiac arrest resulted in a brain injury affecting her motor skills, language and memory. — Jessica Golden,alex Sherman, CNBC, 30 Sep. 2026 See All Example Sentences for incapacitated

Recent Examples of Synonyms for incapacitated

Adjective

The movie offered a sly critique of Korea’s rapid urbanization, and introduced the wayward types (bar girls, severely disabled men) that would populate all of Lee’s films.

— E. Tammy Kim, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
The closure is part of a project to improve access for disabled visitors and replace the library’s heating and air conditioning system.

— Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of disabled

Verb

He is crippled by doubt, convinced that others are gaining on him.

— Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
The long nightmare might be over for South African producers, whose industry has been crippled for more than two years by the paralysis of a rebate program that for all intents and purposes had ceased to function.

— Christopher Vourlias, Variety, 12 Oct. 2026

Definition of crippled

Verb

Five people were killed and 36 wounded in a Russian attack on the Ukrainian capital that lasted from Tuesday evening into Wednesday morning, Kyiv police said.

— Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 15 Oct. 2026
The two exchanged gunfire, and she was shot in the thigh and knee and wounded in her index finger.

— Meagan Harris, CBS News, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of wounded

Adjective

But according to Galloway, shortly before his death in 1989, a friend came upon an infirm Olivier watching one of Leigh’s films.

— Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 21 Sep. 2026
Earlier this month, Nancy Guthrie, the elderly and infirm mother of Today show co-anchor Savannah Guthrie, was violently taken from her home in Tucson, Arizona.

— Tony Maglio, HollywoodReporter, 24 Feb. 2026

Definition of infirm

Verb

Police said 23 people were detained overnight, while six officers and one journalist were injured.

— ABC News, ABC News, 14 Oct. 2026
With both Penix and Tagovailoa injured to begin the season and Cooper Rush at quarterback, the offense scored just 16 points over the first two weeks of the season.

— Ryan Canfield OutKick, FOXNews.com, 14 Oct. 2026

Definition of injured

Adjective

Leadership turmoil and a weakened state, as seen with the enfeebled late Ming, could well fuse with latent social tensions to produce an existential crisis.

— Carl Minzner, Foreign Affairs, 5 Oct. 2026
By 1877, the hope for Black equality met an enfeebled federal government that essentially permitted Jim Crow to run amok.

— Wesley Morris, New York Times, 9 June 2026

Definition of enfeebled

Verb

The bottom of the walls was damaged; these surfaces are not smooth and easily cleanable.

— NWA Democrat-Gazette, Arkansas Online, 19 Oct. 2026
But cars have been burned, trees damaged and people hurt in communities across the Palestinian territory, with some people calling this the most dangerous season yet.

— Reuters, NBC news, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of damaged

Adjective

Hasan was left paralyzed from the waist down after being shot in the back by law enforcement and now uses a wheelchair.

— Seung Min Kim, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2026
When her aunt Helena and paralyzed grandmother Regina arrive, the fragile boundaries between everyday life, ancestral superstition and Trina’s increasingly disturbing nightmares begin to collapse.

— Melanie Goodfellow, Deadline, 13 Oct. 2026

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