incapacitate, v. 1. disable, debilitate, unfit, indispose, inactivate, deactivate; neutralize, disarm, demilitarize; devitalize, enfeeble, extenuate, weaken, enervate, exhaust; cripple, paralyze, lame, maim, hamstring, Inf. hogtie; prostrate, cramp, hock; impair, mar, ruin, damage, break; undermine, sabotage, wreck; emasculate, unman, effeminize, geld, castrate, neuter, spay, caponize, sterilize, vasectomize.
2. disqualify, invalidate, disenable, disentitle; clip the wings of, tie the hands of, take the wind out of one's sails, draw the teeth of, break the back of, put a spoke in one's wheel; put out of action, put out of commission, put out of gear, SI. put out of whack, take out of action, Inf. sideline, lay up, hospitalize.
incapacity, n. 1. incapability, inability, unfitness, incompetence; inaptitude, unaptness, ineptitude, unqualification, unproficiency, inadequacy; disability, infirmity, handicap, decrepitude, senility, weakness, feebleness; exhaustion, enervation, enfeeblement, prostration, helplessness; impotence, impuissance, powerlessness, forcelessness; disqualification, disenable-ment, invalidation.
2. unintelligence, brainlessness, witlessness, ig norance; stupidity, mental deficiency, idiocy, imbecility, half-wittedness.
incarcerate, v. 1. imprison, embar, confine, jail, impound, intern, hold captive, Si. jug; lock up, bolt in, clap up, put under lock and key, Archaic, engaol.
2. enclose, hem in, hedge in, keep in, shut in; corral, pen in, rail in, fence in; coop up, immure, cage, encage, cloister; wall in, box up, mew up, shut away; constrict, restrict, trammel, check; constrain, restrain, bind, tie.
incarnate, adj. 1. embodied, corporal, corporeal, bodily, fleshly, carnal, somatic, physical; earthly, material, substantial, tangible, palpable; concrete, real, true, actual.
2. personified, typified; signifying, symbolic, representative, emblematic; manifested, made manifest, revealed, demonstrated.
3. flesh-colored, incarnadine, pale pink; crimson, red. - v. 4. concretize, substantialize, substantiate, reify, actualize, embody, incorporate, corporealize, materialize.
5. typify, personify, represent, signify, symbolize.
incarnation, n. 1. materiality, corporeality, sub stantiality, physicalness, bodiliness, concreteness, flesh and blood; earthiness, fleshliness, tangibility, palpability, actuality, realness.
2. embodiment, avatar, corporealization, materiali zation, substantiation, personification, concretization, reification.
incautious, adj. 1. unwary, unwatchful, unvigi-lant, unalert; off guard, unguarded, Inf. asleep on the job, Inf. not on the job, Inf. asleep at the switch or wheel, distracted; unmindful, thoughtless, unthinking, unthoughtful, inattentive, inadvertent, nonobservant, disregardful.
2. unwise, imprudent, injudicious, indiscreet, im provident; uncircumspect, careless, heedless, unheeding; impetuous, impulsive, hasty, over-hasty; rash, hotheaded, brash, foolhardy, headlong, precipitate, breakneck; reckless, harebrained, madcap, temerarious, wild.