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incapacitated
[ in-kuh-pas-i-tey-tid ]
adjective
- deprived of strength or ability; made incapable or nonfunctional:
She’ll be incapacitated for several weeks after the surgery.
Those stealing fuel from incapacitated tanker trucks risk being killed by explosions.
Word History and Origins
Origin of incapacitated1
Example Sentences
He revealed in late 2022 that, soon after his election almost a decade before, he had entrusted a prewritten resignation letter to a senior Vatican official in case he was ever too incapacitated to serve.
She touted the positive results of her mental evaluations to “Good Day New York” host and friend Rosanna Scotto and joked off claims that she is incapacitated in her latest call into “The Breakfast Club.”
They can make decisions about medical treatment if their partner becomes ill and incapacitated, or extend financial benefits – such as Pisit's government pension – to their spouse.
Kaplan said in a statement Thursday that “a state court found her to be legally incapacitated, meaning that she is not capable of making legal and financial decisions on her own.”
Hunter shared his update a month after Williams’ legal guardian Sabrina Morrissey claimed in legal documents that the TV star is “cognitively impaired, permanently disabled and legally incapacitated.”
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