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Recapacitate vs Decapacitate - What's the difference?

recapacitate | decapacitate |

As verbs the difference between recapacitate and decapacitate

is that recapacitate is to qualify again; to confer capacity on again while decapacitate is to reduce something's or someone's capability to do something.

recapacitate

English

Verb

(recapacitat)
  • To qualify again; to confer capacity on again.
    • (Atterbury)
    (Webster 1913)

    decapacitate

    English

    Verb

    (decapacitat)
  • To reduce something's or someone's capability to do something
  • :Calcium bursts would increase spermatozoa motility, where cholesterol would decapacitate spermatozoa, so preventing untimely activation.