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incapacitation

/in-kuh-pas-i-tey-shuhn/US // ɪn kəˌpæs ɪˈteɪ ʃən //

丧失能力,无能力,失能,无能

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the state of not having the necessary ability, qualification, or strength to perform some specified act or function; incapacity: When the brain lacks sufficient oxygen, cognitive and mental ability declines, followed by physical incapacitation, and then unconsciousness or even death.

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Examples

  • Because of a lack of consistent rules, standards and record-keeping, the audit said Metro “cannot reasonably ensure that its employees and contractors” who work dangerous jobs “are free from impairment that could cause incapacitation.”

  • That way, the Senate still slows things down, but not to the point of incapacitation.

  • Yet progressives have, if anything, more reason to worry about the incapacitation of government than conservatives.

  • The unjust and absurd Act of Incapacitation was carried by seventy-four voices to twenty-four.

  • Employees may retire for age at 70, or for physical incapacitation between 65 and 69.

  • Nothing short of incapacitation of the whole squad would have brought forth a stay in activities.

  • Of the koshimoto, two were the favoured concubines during the incapacitation of the wife.