incapacitate (someone)

incapacitate (someone)

To cause someone to be physically unable to do something. Oh man, that illness incapacitated me for weeks—I still get tired just walking up and down the steps.
See also: incapacitate
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

incapacitate someone (for something) (for a period of time)

to make someone physically unfit for [doing] something for a period of time. The accident incapacitated Rick for further work for a year. Sam's carelessness incapacitated Frank for a month.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • incapacitate
  • incapacitate (someone) for (a period of time)
  • snaved
  • snaved in
  • snaved-in
  • suck (someone or something) into (something)
  • suck into
  • tear loose from (someone or something)
  • grapple
  • grappling