Incapacitating is an English word with synonyms like crippling or disabling. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Incapacitating meaning
present participle and gerund of incapacitate
Synonyms of Incapacitating
Using Incapacitating
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of incapacitate
- Useful related words include: crippling, disabling, unhealthful.
- In the example corpus, incapacitating often appears in combinations such as: of incapacitating, and incapacitating, as incapacitating.
Context around Incapacitating
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.9 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 7 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 17 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Incapacitating
- In this selection, "incapacitating" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.9 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, devices, merely, chronic, filipino, kiba and pain stand out and add context to how "incapacitating" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include acoustic devices incapacitating filipino crewmembers and an acute incapacitating dose 30. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "incapacitating" sits close to words such as aav, abdicating and abductor, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with incapacitating
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
The experience can often be daunting and incapacitating. (8 words)
Gibbs sustained incapacitating injuries, the police report states. (8 words)
Chemical warfare agents are divided into lethal and incapacitating categories. (10 words)
Pownell-Styer gained control of the knife and police say he began choking Sanchez with “the hopes of incapacitating her so that she would stop attacking him,” until she ultimately lost consciousness. (32 words)
Even something as simple as a squash ball aimed at that point (" The Sontaran Stratagem ") or contact by the heel of a shoe (" The Last Sontaran ") is capable of incapacitating them temporarily. (32 words)
Lasers of all but the lowest powers can potentially be used as incapacitating weapons, through their ability to produce temporary or permanent vision loss in varying degrees when aimed at the eyes. (32 words)
Example sentences (17)
Chinese ships blasted government fishing vessels with water cannons and used acoustic devices incapacitating Filipino crewmembers.
His healing of Hinata and merely incapacitating Kiba reveal that Kabuto’s commitment to the medical arts controls a bit of his moral compass.
Pownell-Styer gained control of the knife and police say he began choking Sanchez with “the hopes of incapacitating her so that she would stop attacking him,” until she ultimately lost consciousness.
Esparza commended HSI’s efforts in safeguarding the victims and incapacitating a smuggler for a significant period.
In many cases it's the difference between basic mobility and activity vs. chronic, incapacitating pain from arthritis and other ailments.
First recognised in Tanzania in the 1950s, the term ‘Chikungunya’ originated from an ethnic phrase that means ‘to walk bend-over’ – perfectly capturing the incapacitating joint pain suffered by infected individuals.
The experience can often be daunting and incapacitating.
This is how the Trump administration goes about the quiet business of incapacitating the U.S. government.
Every cry of incapacitating hunger and unending poverty is our shame, every shriek in hatred and discrimination is our defeat, because we are all fundamentally unified at some level.
Gibbs sustained incapacitating injuries, the police report states.
A substance is classified as incapacitating if less than 1/100 of the lethal dose causes incapacitation, e.g., through nausea or visual problems.
Chemical warfare agents are divided into lethal and incapacitating categories.
Even something as simple as a squash ball aimed at that point (" The Sontaran Stratagem ") or contact by the heel of a shoe (" The Last Sontaran ") is capable of incapacitating them temporarily.
Humans receiving an acute incapacitating dose (30 Gy) have their performance degraded almost immediately and become ineffective within several hours.
Lasers of all but the lowest powers can potentially be used as incapacitating weapons, through their ability to produce temporary or permanent vision loss in varying degrees when aimed at the eyes.
Luthor then replied that he had anticipated this for some time, and he then attacked Brainiac and snapped his neck, temporarily incapacitating him.
Marvel Comics In the All-New, All-Different Marvel, Doom returns to Latveria where he saves Iron Man by incapacitating a group of Latveria rebels with a sonic attack.
Common combinations with incapacitating
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of incapacitating 4×
- and incapacitating 3×
- as incapacitating 2×