incapacitation

Definition

The act of incapacitating or state of being incapacitated; incapacity; disqualification.

Example Sentences

• "I dare not whisper to myself a pension on this side of absolute incapacitation and infirmity, till years have sucked me dry."
• "The incapacitation of South Dakota Senator Tim Johnson has put all eyes in Washington on what is normally a little-noticed Senate vote now scheduled for Jan. 4."
• "Order-maintenance proponents affirmatively promote youth curfews, anti-gang loitering ordinances, and order-maintenance crackdowns as milder alternatives to the theory of incapacitation and increased incarceration."