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The Army wanted to know to what degree an "incapacitating agent" could incapacitate , and how its effects could be reversed.
In the words of a former Soviet military intelligence officer, Boris Volodarsky, the current job of the Kamera – originally set up by Stalin in 1921 – is to devise "poisonous biological and chemical agents" that will kill or incapacitate their victims in such a way as to make the "death or illness appear natural, or at least to produce symptoms that will baffle doctors and forensic investigators".
Assuming that Iran is indeed developing nuclear weapons to assail Israel, what better way for Israel to respond but with a clever bit of software, called Stuxnet, to incapacitate Iranian nuclear facilities, such as uranium-enrichment centrifuges at Natanz?
This sound can incapacitate anyone within 300 metres by giving them an instant headache.
The United States Air Force has developed a microwave weapon, called "active denial technology", that would incapacitate crowds in this way.
Even America's Joint Non-Lethal Weapons Programmedefines NLWs as "weapons that are explicitly designed and primarily employed so as to incapacitate personnel...while minimising fatalities, permanent injury to personnel, and undesired damage to property".
The challenges in question (Dr Klausner borrowed the title from a lecture delivered in 1900 by a mathematician called David Hilbert, which outlined 23 grand challenges in maths for his successors to solve) range from the mundane ("prepare vaccines that do not require refrigeration") to the esoteric ("develop a genetic strategy to deplete or incapacitate a disease-transmitting insect population").
The trouble is, Sayonara and her kind are wind-driven surfboards: unstable, flimsy, with accelerations that cause gear to fail and that incapacitate crewmen.
Then there are the legal liabilities resulting from all the likely false-positive responses that will doubtless lock a proportion of sober drivers out of their vehicles or incapacitate their engines in some way.
Most were suspects shot dead during arrest (there seems to have been little attempt to incapacitate them); 16 were innocent bystanders.
A number of new crowd-control technologies take a different approach, employing sounds, shocks and stinks to disperse or incapacitate protesters.
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The primary grammatical function of "incapacitate" is as a transitive verb . It requires a direct object, indicating what or whom is being made incapable. Ludwig AI confirms this with numerous examples showcasing its use in various contexts.
Expression frequency: Very common
