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disabled

adj
/dɪsˈeɪbəɫd/UK

Etymology

From disable + -ed.

  1. derived from habilis — “easily managed, held, or handled; apt; skillful”
  2. derived from abile
  3. derived from able
  4. inherited from able
  5. formed as disable — “dis- + able”
  6. suffixed as disabled — “disable + ed”

Definitions

  1. Made incapable of use or action.

    • In the car department we would repair cars that were disabled and placed in bad order by a bunch of scalies taking the place of striking switchmen, engineers, Firemen, etc.

  2. Having a disability.

  3. Legally disqualified.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. One who is disabled. (often used collectively as the disabled, but sometimes also…

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

    2. simple past and past participle of disable

The neighborhood

Derived

antidisabled, disabledness, multidisabled, neurodisabled, nondisabled, predisabled, semidisabled, undisabled

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at disabled. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01disabled02disqualified03disqualify04ineligible05forbidden06disallowed07invalid08disability

A definitional loop anchored at disabled. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at disabled

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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