incapacitate

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That cynical calculation lies behind the design of many weapons that are intended to incapacitate rather than annihilate.
许多武器在设计时就运用了这种乖张的算计思维，它们的目的不是消灭敌人而是使敌人丧失作战能力。
Most were suspects shot dead during arrest (there seems to have been little attempt to incapacitate them); 16 were innocent bystanders.
大多数被杀的是被逮捕期间的犯罪嫌疑人（警察丝毫不努力使他们丧失行为能力）; 还有16人无辜的旁观者。
Aides to Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann say she suffers from severe migraine headaches that can incapacitate her for days at a time.
共和党候选人助理米歇尔·巴赫曼说她患有严重的偏头痛，每次发作时都好几日无法正常工作。

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