incapacitate

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That cynical calculation lies behind the design of many weapons that are intended to incapacitate rather than annihilate.
許多武器在設計時就運用了這種乖張的算計思維，它們的目的不是消滅敵人而是使敵人喪失作戰能力。
Most were suspects shot dead during arrest (there seems to have been little attempt to incapacitate them); 16 were innocent bystanders.
大多數被殺的是被逮捕期間的犯罪嫌疑人（警察絲毫不努力使他們喪失行爲能力）; 還有16人無辜的旁觀者。
Aides to Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann say she suffers from severe migraine headaches that can incapacitate her for days at a time.
共和黨候選人助理米歇爾·巴赫曼說她患有嚴重的偏頭痛，每次發作時都好幾日無法正常工作。

Drinking contaminated water can lead to cholera, vomiting, diarrhea and other ailments that can quickly incapacitate and kill.
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"Neuroscience and neuroimaging is going to change the whole philosophy about how we punish and how we decide who to incapacitate and how we decide how to deal with people, " he says, echoing comments of a growing number of leading scholars across the country, including Princeton and Harvard.
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to make someone unable to work or do things normally, or unable to do what they intended to do

If something incapacitates you, it weakens you in some way, so that you cannot do certain things. ...
incapacitated