as in impaired
deprived of the power to perform one or more natural bodily activities
the disabled man was unable to climb the stairs without help
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as in crippled
to cause severe or permanent injury to
a promising athlete who was severely disabled in a plane crash
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as in paralyzed
to render powerless, ineffective, or unable to move
disabled the controls for unauthorized users
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Recent Examples of disabled
Aariana Rose Philip, Vogue, 4 May 2026
The error caused her credit score to plunge roughly 85 points and jeopardized her plans to move with her disabled father into a more accessible home.
—Joel Jacobs, ProPublica, 4 May 2026
ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
So, consider a policy that the chat box will be disabled.
—Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
But, for so long, disabled people were not represented anywhere.
—Aariana Rose Philip, Vogue, 4 May 2026
The error caused her credit score to plunge roughly 85 points and jeopardized her plans to move with her disabled father into a more accessible home.
—Joel Jacobs, ProPublica, 4 May 2026
Verb
Taiwan and Japan are reversing policies that shuttered nuclear sites following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear meltdown, triggered when an earthquake and tsunami disabled the power supply that cooled the reactors.
—ABC News, 17 Apr. 2026
So, consider a policy that the chat box will be disabled.
—Kelly G. Richardson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 14 Apr. 2026
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Adjective
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In Caveat, Isaac (Johnny French) and Olga (Leila Sykes) are both recovering from traumatic events that have left them impaired — him an amnesiac, her intermittently catatonic.—
Louis Peitzman,
Vulture,
1 May 2026
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The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, signed by former President Joe Biden in 2021, directs the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to require new vehicles to include technology that can detect impaired driving and stop a car if something is wrong.—
Tiffani Jackson,
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
30 Apr. 2026
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That has crippled Iran’s two biggest non-oil exports, and higher prices have affected everything from plastics to pipes, to fabrics and packaging for groceries like milk, butter and cheese.—
Amir-Hussein Radjy,
Los Angeles Times,
28 Apr. 2026
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That has crippled Iran’s two biggest non-oil exports, and higher prices have affected everything from plastics to pipes, to fabrics and packaging for groceries like milk, butter and cheese.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
27 Apr. 2026
Verb
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She's been paralyzed ever since.—
Donald Fountain,
CBS News,
4 May 2026
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Read her 2022 New Yorker feature on how the inability to amend America’s most important document has left the nation paralyzed.—
David Remnick,
New Yorker,
4 May 2026
Adjective
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Yet, Bruccoleri is absolutely exceptional in her role as a young woman determined to find her voice in a world that would so easily push her aside due to her appearance and eclectic curiosities.—
Aramide Tinubu,
Variety,
6 May 2026
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Noël Coward’s writing for drunk is exceptional.—
Caitlin Huston,
HollywoodReporter,
6 May 2026
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Norman Hunter, 48, of Dolton, also was struck by a car while incapacitated, the medical examiner’s office said.—
Evy Lewis,
Chicago Tribune,
1 May 2026
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The film, starring Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson and slated to hit theaters October 2, follows Lowen Ashleigh (Johnson), a struggling writer who is hired to complete a successful book series after its author, Verity Crawford (Hathaway), is incapacitated.—
Matt Grobar,
Deadline,
27 Apr. 2026
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Kareem Ruddock, 35, was identified by police as the knifeman who stabbed Rene Flores, 31, to death and wounded a 34-year-old man in the pre-dawn assault.—
Colin Mixson,
New York Daily News,
2 May 2026
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The moment might signal that Athena is wounded, but alive — if barely.—
Christopher Rudolph,
PEOPLE,
1 May 2026
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In the past few years, Russia, at an enormous cost to its own forces, made steady advances on the battlefield (most estimates suggest more than a million Russian soldiers have been killed or injured since the start of the conflict).—
Joshua Yaffa,
New Yorker,
8 May 2026
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According to the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office, Semrade fled the station immediately after the attack, leaving Ozsoy critically injured on the platform.—
Stepheny Price,
FOXNews.com,
8 May 2026
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“Disabled.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disabled. Accessed 8 May. 2026.
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