disablement

noun

Definition of disablementnext
1
as in disability

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as in impotence

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for disablement
  1. disability
  2. impotence
  3. impairment
  4. debility
  5. exhaustion
  6. injury
  7. infirmity
  8. harm
Noun
  • For seniors and people with disabilities, programs like the city’s Housing Choice Voucher Program focus on providing safe, affordable and accessible housing options.
    Sherell Jackson, Baltimore Sun, 11 Jan. 2025
  • The foundation plans to use the funds to build an adaptive playground for children with disabilities at a school in South Jersey.
    Paul Du Quenoy, Newsweek, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of disability
Noun
  • Social media, though, offers an alternative to this impotence.
    Callum Booth, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
  • As such, side effects of surgery and radiation therapy for prostate cancer often include incontinence, impotence and bowel dysfunction.
    Michael Irving, New Atlas, 9 Jan. 2025
Definition of impotence
Noun
  • Excluding adults who had mild cognitive impairment, dementia or incomplete data, the Kanazawa scientists looked at the data of more than 8,500 adults aged 65 and older.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 15 Jan. 2025
  • The increase in net loss was primarily due to higher operating expenses, including a significant impairment expense.
    Quartz Bot, Quartz, 13 Jan. 2025
Definition of impairment
Noun
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
  • According to this view, the outside world has been generous to Africa, providing substantial aid in recent decades, leaving no excuse for the continent’s debility.
    Howard W. French, Foreign Affairs, 16 June 2015
Definition of debility
Noun
  • The fires have left Mayorga with a painful mix of anxiety, depression and exhaustion.
    Brittny Mejia, Los Angeles Times, 14 Jan. 2025
  • And burnout isn’t just a trendy buzzword; this is a very real, very draining state of exhaustion that dims your spark.
    Ankur Bindal, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
Definition of exhaustion
Noun
  • These surfaces could be icy and slippery, increasing your risk of a fall and injury.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
  • The Pelicans were unlikely to move him anyway, as teams that interacted with them before his injury found New Orleans’ asking price was extraordinarily high.
    Christian Clark, The Athletic, 17 Jan. 2025
Definition of injury
Noun
  • Is Jill Biden Edith Wilson, an overprotective First Lady clinging to power in the face of her husband’s obvious infirmity?
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 13 July 2024
  • His zeal seemed even stranger when juxtaposed with a sensible approach to my own infirmities.
    Kayla Aletha Welch, Longreads, 19 Nov. 2024
Definition of infirmity
Noun
  • He was ordered to pay the women around $148 million in late 2023 for the harm caused by his lies.
    Molly Crane-Newman, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • In the military, many dogs are trained to detect land mines, helping to protect their handlers and personnel from harm.
    Michael Gfoeller And David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Definition of harm
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