# disabled

Pronunciation: say "dis-AY-buld" /dɪsˈeɪbəld/

## Adjective

1. Having a physical or mental condition that limits movement, the senses, or everyday activities.
   - Simple: Having a condition that makes some activities harder or impossible to do.
   - _Disabled employees are entitled to reasonable accommodations at work._
   - _The museum added ramps and elevators so that disabled visitors could reach every gallery._
2. Made incapable of working or being used, often deliberately.
   - Simple: Turned off or broken so that it cannot work or be used.
   - _With its engine disabled, the freighter drifted slowly toward the rocks._
   - _Technicians left the elevator disabled until the inspection was complete._
5. Disqualified under the law from exercising a right, holding an office, or performing a legal act.
   - Simple: Not allowed by law to do something or hold a certain position.
   - _A trustee who breaches his duty may be disabled from administering the trust._
   - _Convicted of fraud, he stood disabled from serving as a fiduciary._

## Verb

3. Simple past tense and past participle of disable. — simple past and past participle of disable
   - Simple: Past tense and past participle of disable. Use this form for something that was switched off or made unable to work.
   - _Engineers disabled the safety override to run the diagnostic test._
   - _All the machines were disabled during the blackout._

## Noun

4. A person who has a disability, especially when spoken of as a group. *(nonstandard)*
   - Simple: A person who has a condition that makes some things harder or impossible to do.
   - _Public transit reforms aim to make every station accessible to the disabled._
   - _The charity provides free job training for the disabled across the region._

## Origin

Formed from the verb "disable" with the suffix "-ed".

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/disabled (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).