Steven Pinker

A decent government with an effective, but not gratuitously violent, police force and a fair court system are essential. This deters and incapacitates psychopaths, bullies and hotheads - and if it earns the confidence of the people, they don't have to become violent in self-defence.

Canadian Scientist

Frances Hesselbein

I lost my son in late 2011. He had been totally incapacitated from his neck down for the last eight years of his life, but his mind was alive and brilliant in those years. He even wrote a book, 'Allegheny Mountain,' lying at home in his hospital bed.

American Businessman

Ruth Rendell

Haemophilia itself is bad enough. It is disabling day by day, even if far less incapacitating than in the 19th and early 20th centuries. But the added burden of life-threatening further illnesses from contaminated NHS blood is far worse.

British Writer

Jenna Wortham

Most times, at the movies, my stress levels are ratcheted up so high that I can barely sit through the full production without excusing myself, clutching people next to me or crawling out of my seat, incapacitated by the unknown.

American Journalist

Glenn Ford

An actor would be foolish to do something that might hold up the picture, or more importantly incapacitate him. If an actor does do a stunt he needs to make sure a stunt man stands by to see that it's done correctly.

American Actor

Dane Cook

I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

American Comedian

Daniel Goleman

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

American Author

Chris Hadfield

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

Canadian Astronaut

Cornelia Parker

At times, I've been incapacitated by anxiety and unhappiness. You really know what joy is if you have experienced the opposite.

English Artist

Helena Bonham Carter

Wearing corsets all the time was completely incapacitating, as far as digestion goes.

British Actress

This meaning often refers to a temporary inability due to an event or condition.

Physical Limitation

The word usually implies a disadvantage or hindrance in achieving goals.

Negative Outcome

It can be used metaphorically to express being overwhelmed or emotionally affected.

Metaphorical Use

It emphasizes a lack of sensation or movement, often by an external cause.

Sensory Effect

It typically describes a temporary state, suggesting possible recovery.

Temporary State

Used in computing, it describes technical malfunctions that prevent normal operation.

Technical Failure

In cybersecurity, it refers to actions intended to damage systems' functionality.

Security Incidents

 He could come over and help me." We actually practiced incapacitated crew rescue, so he could float me like a blimp and stuff me into the airlock if he had to. I could find my own way back. It's not nearly as big a deal. And actually, if you keep on crying for a while, whatever that gunk was that's in your eye starts to dilute

What I learned from...

 Those kinds of fleeting thoughts that physically incapacitate you, that temporarily give you that deer-in-headlights look. However, if you put the mouse in a completely different new box, like the next one, it will not be afraid of this box because there's no reason that it will be afraid of this new environment.

Steve Ramirez and Xu...

 which means you wouldn’t be a target until the enchantress was incapacitated. But if you succeeded in transforming her, you’d probably be turned into a fish immediately after. If you transformed the sorcerer, the enchantress would almost certainly turn you to stone.

Can you solve the wizard...

 if this were a real-life horrible situation how would people have fared what everyone have survived probably not they didn't follow instructions if it had been a worst-case scenario and the flight attendants were incapacitated yeah there are people that

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 Bright zigzagging lines across your field of vision. Sensitivity to light, lingering fatigue, disrupted sleep. A migraine can include any of these symptoms. While an incapacitating headache is one of the most common experiences of migraine,

What happens to your...

 Like the weakly electric fish, the electric eel uses its signals to navigate and communicate, but it reserves its strongest electric discharges for hunting using a two-phased attack that susses out and then incapacitates its prey.

How do fish make...

 which they ticked arrows with themselves so that they can use that poison when they're hunting to incapacitate the things that they're hunting. So they would take an arrow, somewhat like this one.

The Killer Rat with...

 whirling dervish or something but you'll see a ferret just kind of roll around with a prairie dog trying to get the upper hand and get its jaws around its neck and once it becomes incapacitated

Harsh Reality of Saving...

 modern world you straddle traditional and modern you you battle with the values of your people of the past and and what's happening right now there's one point where I'm incapacitated and

Kalani Queypo: Playing...

 bipedalism carried with it an enormous price where compassion was what you paid you to give it you simply can't abandon somebody who's incapacitated because the

Incapacitate

To make someone or something unable to do or achieve something.

Often appears as...

To make someone unable to feel or move.

Often appears as...

To make a device or system unable to function.

Often appears as...

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Negative Outcome

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