| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | in·va·lid |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   n v -ld |
| NOUN: | One who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or disability. | | ADJECTIVE: | 1. Incapacitated by illness or injury. 2. Of, relating to, or intended for invalids. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: in·va·lid·ed, in·va·lid·ing, in·va·lids
1. To incapacitate physically. 2. Chiefly British To release or exempt from duty because of ill health: “I was not quite sick enough to be invalided out, even though I was of no more use” (Mary Lee Settle). | | ETYMOLOGY: | From invalid2 (influenced by French invalide, sickly, infirm).
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