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disabled

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If the elderly is not able to walk, eat, or think, then they're sick or disabled.

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Parts of speech2

Quick take

Having a disability.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of disabled gathered in one view.

adjective

Having a disability.

adjective

Made incapable of use or action.

noun

(nonstandard) One who is disabled. (often used collectively as the disabled, but sometimes also singular)

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for disabled.

Example sentences

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If the elderly is not able to walk, eat, or think, then they're sick or disabled.

2

The transaction graph is flat, because transactions are disabled until the final safety switch on Monday/Tuesday is removed.

3

Windows, for example, has a (by default disabled) feature to trigger a kernel panic on Ctrl+Scroll lock.

4

One of the forced updates in W10 disabled overclocking of g3258 on chipsets not blessed by Intel.

5

When you visit a church you see elderly people, and the sick and disabled, the sort of people who need God.

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The scarce resources implied here is the money that the government spends on medical treatment for the elderly, poor and disabled.

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People who the majority perceives as disabled or even just ugly are not necessarily unhealthy.

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I chose my school and degree based around staying close to home to help with my disabled brother.

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Telemetry and Ads in the Startmenu can't be disabled, unless running the Enterprise Version!

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The fact that Safari has 3rd party cookies disabled by default whereas Firefox hasn't...

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Windows 8 was a little bit more sneaky however, when you chose custom they were all disabled but if you select express they were enabled.

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I tested Cortana, I feel she is not very intelligent, so I disabled she again.

Quote examples

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"It appears that the voidnull account has been disabled on Hacker News." I think they ban tor, or new-account tor users (which completely defeats the purpose of using tor in the first place).

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use disabled in a sentence?

If the elderly is not able to walk, eat, or think, then they're sick or disabled.

What does disabled mean?

Having a disability.

What part of speech is disabled?

disabled is commonly used as adjective, noun.