26984 words

disabled

7 definitions • 9 examples
1
having an illness, injury, or condition that makes it difficult to do some things that other people do:

Examples:

The accident left him severely disabled.
2
relating to or intended for disabled people:

Examples:

disabled access The library does not have disabled access.
3
disabled people as a group. This term is now considered offensive, and people usually prefer to say people with disabilities or disabled people.
4
lacking one or more of the physical or mental abilities that most people have:

Examples:

a disabled war veteran
US law requires that all public buildings be accessible to the disabled.
They opened a group home for mentally disabled adults.
5
not having one or more of the physical or mental abilities that most people have:

Examples:

disabled customers.
Many meat packing workers say the work is so physically hard that they become disabled after only a few years.
6
relating to or intended for disabled people:

Examples:

disabled access/facilities/parking The factory has very limited disabled access.
7
people who are disabled:

Examples:

He went on to invent 250 other products for the disabled, including eating and drinking aids and wheelchair gadgets.

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