incapacitate vs qualify

incapacitate

verb
  • To make someone ineligible; to disqualify. 

  • To make someone or something incapable of doing something; to disable. 

qualify

verb
  • To certify or license someone for something. 

  • To throw and catch each object at least twice. 

  • To compete successfully in some stage of a competition and become eligible for the next stage. 

  • To make someone, or to become competent or eligible for some position or task. 

  • To modify, limit, restrict or moderate something; especially to add conditions or requirements for an assertion to be true. 

  • To give individual quality to; to modulate; to vary; to regulate. 

  • To describe or characterize something by listing its qualities. 

noun
  • An instance of throwing and catching each prop at least twice. 

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