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disabled adjective [ dɪsˈeɪbld ]

• (of a person) having a physical or mental condition that limits their movements, senses, or activities.
• "facilities for disabled people"
Similar: having a disability, wheelchair-using, paralysed, paraplegic, quadriplegic, tetraplegic, monoplegic, having a mental disability, learning-disabled, having learning difficulties, having special needs, hemiplegic, paretic, paraparetic, physically challenged, differently abled, handicapped, physically handicapped, physically impaired, crippled, lame,
Opposite: able-bodied,

disable verb

• (of a disease, injury, or accident) limit (someone) in their movements, senses, or activities.
• "it's an injury that could disable somebody for life"
Similar: incapacitate, impair, damage, put out of action, render/make powerless, weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, indispose, make unfit, immobilize, hamstring, paralyse, prostrate, torpefy,


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