incapacitate

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

The police officer was incapacitated by a blow to the head.

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

Wilson's principal motivation for situation-oriented policies was the desire to change the real world by proposing politically practicable policies. And his principle prescription was to incapacitate a larger number of habitual offenders.

To make someone ineligible; to disqualify.