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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
disabled
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a disabled toiletBritish English (= one for disabled people)
▪ Is there a disabled toilet?
be registered (as) unemployed/disabled etcBritish English (= be on an official list of a particular group)
physically disabled
▪ The attack left her physically disabled.
severely disabled/injured
▪ An unnecessary operation left him severely disabled.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
as
▪ Will they be as disabled as current cohorts?
▪ The absolute number of adults classed as disabled increases continuously with age up to 79 years and then decreases slightly.
▪ This applies particularly to students on long-term medication and those registered as disabled persons.
▪ Above all, she wanted people not to think of her as disabled.
▪ Of the 23 health and caring professionals who had been accepted for training as disabled people, eight had experienced difficulty.
mentally
▪ Critics say the policy puts mentally disabled people on to the streets and is part of the creeping privatisation of the health service.
▪ Since the 1959 Mental Health Act the services have increasingly extended their help to the mentally disabled, where this seems suitable.
▪ Sam is physically and mentally disabled and also blind.
▪ They're treated as if they're mentally disabled and are sometimes even drugged.
▪ Everything in its new gallery has been made carved painted by mentally disabled people.
▪ Physically and mentally disabled Beverley was deaf dumb and blind and weighed just four stone when she died.
▪ It's supposed to help the vulnerable, the elderly, frail, physically and mentally disabled.
physically
▪ Each centre will be designed to help even the most physically disabled or confused people move around and orient themselves easily.
▪ A further day is proposed on the subject of teaching the elderly and/or physically disabled.
▪ Design Detailed personal interview and physical assessment of physically disabled adults; personal or telephone interview with carers.
▪ It's a genetic condition which means she's been physically disabled from birth.
▪ They contain fewer households with cars, more mentally and physically disabled and more of those with limited educational qualifications.
▪ One employs 12 care assistants, whose services are provided free to physically disabled clients.
▪ Dementia prevalence is higher among those who are physically disabled.
severely
▪ About 70 percent of those elderly persons living with younger people are severely disabled.
▪ It's a challenge for the cast, some of whom are severely disabled.
▪ However, it is not just the severely disabled who can benefit from computers.
▪ She is severely disabled and he takes her everywhere.
▪ Fears that disabled drivers particularly the severely disabled will find it impossible to shop in the town were raised.
▪ Subjects 181 severely disabled adults and their carers.
▪ The state depends on these relationships for the support of the vast majority of severely disabled old people.
▪ The Independent Living Fund has proved a great success in giving severely disabled people an opportunity to live in the community.
■ NOUN
adults
▪ Subjects 181 severely disabled adults and their carers.
▪ Discussion Inadequacy of services for young physically disabled adults has been emphasised in several reports.
artist
▪ Accountability Many people are uncertain about accepting that disabled artists might also be accountable to a disabled constituency.
▪ If we are to move beyond this state of affairs, the cultural task for disabled artists and culture workers is threefold.
▪ Could insight about the music of one disabled artist have some particular relevance to other disabled musicians?
▪ Attending a weekly group for disabled artists, workshops revolve around dance, drama, art and music.
child
▪ That is something that special educators have, so far, lamentably failed to offer disabled children and their families.
▪ Annual trips and holidays are organised for disabled children, providing them with an opportunity to experience different environments.
▪ Three day courses are provided yearly for teachers with disabled children in their classes.
▪ She visited an alcohol and drug abuse centre, opened a £600,000 swimming pool for disabled children and toured a factory.
▪ The cash will be used to buy a computer which will be adapted for use by disabled children.
▪ You have a child who is disabled and for whom you receive the disabled child premium.
▪ Get involved with deprived or disabled children.
▪ Ron wants to raise money for disabled children, whom he has worked with for many years.
driver
▪ The reason is that the opportunities for disabled drivers to test specially-adapted vehicles are limited.
▪ This is asked as an avid fan of Landies and being a disabled driver.
▪ It's a serious concern for women, the elderly and disabled drivers.
▪ New rules: Rules change on Monday for disabled drivers using orange badge parking discs.
▪ Fears that disabled drivers particularly the severely disabled will find it impossible to shop in the town were raised.
▪ And it's the disabled driver who's expected to guide the pony and carriage through a tortuous maze of obstacles.
▪ Councillors agreed with the recommendation by Darlington Borough Council not to have special exemptions for disabled drivers.
group
▪ These data show that this is indeed a very disabled group of people.
▪ The measures were introduced following consultation with the public and disabled groups and will be monitored during an 18 month pilot scheme.
▪ Officialdom, rightly, puts itself out finding representatives for and of women, ethnic minorities and disabled groups.
▪ The disabled group have been told it could be ten years before a bridge with ramps is installed at Leominster.
▪ Yet when pedestrianisation was first announced the city's shopkeepers, taxi drivers and disabled groups kicked up a fuss.
man
▪ Howson started production in a former collar factory off the Old Kent Road with a workforce of five disabled men.
▪ Car joy: Prince Charles presented a £54,000 hi-tech van to disabled man who then took him for a spin.
▪ Ron Preddy, a registered disabled man who gradually developed the confidence to speak out.
people
▪ As homeowners, disabled people are more likely than other households to experience poor housing conditions.
▪ Access to housing Most housing departments failed to integrate disabled people into their allocation policies.
▪ Many of the disabled people who use the centre cook their own meals in the kitchen.
▪ Existing employment law in turn has failed to protect the employment expectations of disabled people.
▪ No legal framework prevails to enable disabled people to counteract discrimination, unfair employment practices, problems of access, etc.
▪ The issue of disability culture was highlighted, with the role of disabled people viewed as being isolated away from wider society.
▪ The charity that provides the opportunities and facilities for disabled people to take part in sport.
▪ The Independent Living Fund has proved a great success in giving severely disabled people an opportunity to live in the community.
person
▪ When a disabled person applied for housing they would generally be referred for medical assessment.
▪ It can cost £2,000-£3,000 to kit out a disabled person with all the equipment needed to communicate.
▪ Similarly, disabled persons needed to be enabled by appropriate technology.
▪ However, the disabled person has to secure the job first.
▪ This applies particularly to students on long-term medication and those registered as disabled persons.
▪ The Bill sought to prohibit employment discrimination against qualified disabled persons on the ground of their disability.
▪ As mentioned earlier, social services departments can and do make adaptations to premises to make life easier for the disabled person.
student
▪ Taylor Rouse is a very small hostel for disabled students.
▪ His brief was to design an item of cutlery with and not for a disabled student.
▪ I am thinking in particular of disabled students and students with children.
▪ For example, disabled students can be timetabled into ground floor rooms.
▪ It is recognised that one of the areas where immediate progress can be made is in assisting disabled students.
▪ The premises have been designed with the disabled student in mind.
▪ Disabled students Finally, disabled students also face particular problems.
▪ Special arrangements can be made for disabled students.
visitor
▪ In designing it, special consideration has been given to the needs of the disabled visitor.
▪ The boats can be viewed from the Quay but disabled visitors may find difficulty boarding them.
▪ There is good access for disabled visitors.
▪ We welcome disabled visitors to whom we offer excellent purpose-built accommodation with parking adjacent to all rooms.
woman
▪ Recently Darlington's centre organiser, Barbara Murchie, travelled to London to escort a disabled woman to her new home.
worker
▪ Will he acknowledge that Government Departments have not even come near their own target of 3 percent. disabled workers?
▪ The comparative method discloses a number of key issues which any legislation guaranteeing equal employment rights for disabled workers must address.
▪ Read in studio Scores of disabled workers are to lose their jobs after a council decided to stop subsidising their workshops.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ David goes to a special school for disabled children.
▪ Her son is disabled and she has to take care of him all the time.
▪ The governor has guaranteed health care for pregnant women, preschool children, and the disabled.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ About 70 percent of those elderly persons living with younger people are severely disabled.
▪ But no-one was in doubt that the real winner was disabled sport.
▪ It's a challenge for the cast, some of whom are severely disabled.
▪ Nowadays he teaches them the cowardly art of aggressive selling to the elderly and disabled.
▪ The reason is that the opportunities for disabled drivers to test specially-adapted vehicles are limited.
▪ There are many problems still to be overcome in providing for the disabled.
▪ There was insufficient recognition that some of the voluntary organisations who helped with the plans do not adequately consult disabled people.
▪ We will encourage the young to become involved and will facilitate access for the disabled.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
disabled

disabled \disabled\ adj.

  1. injured so as to be unable to function; as, disabled veterans.

    Syn: hors de combat, out of action.

  2. unable to function at normal capacity.

    Syn: handicapped, incapacitated.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
disabled

"incapacitated," 1630s, past participle adjective from disable. Earlier it meant "legally disqualified" (mid-15c.).

Wiktionary
disabled
  1. 1 Made incapable of use or action. 2 Having a disability, especially physical. 3 (context legal English) Legally disqualify. n. One who is disabled (often used collectively as ''the disabled'', but sometimes also singular). v

  2. (en-past of: disable)

WordNet
disabled
  1. adj. incapacitated by injury or illness [syn: handicapped, incapacitated]

  2. so badly injured as to be unable to continue; "disabled veterans" [syn: hors de combat, out of action]

  3. n. people who are crippled or otherwise physically handicapped; "technology to help the elderly and the disabled"

Wikipedia
Disabled (poem)

"Disabled" is a war poem by Wilfred Owen written in 1917. It expresses the tormented thoughts and recollections of a teenaged soldier in World War I who has lost his limbs in battle and is now confined, utterly helpless, to a wheelchair. The subject contrasts the living death he is now facing with the youthful pleasures he had enjoyed "before he threw away his knees"; he goes on to recall the impetuous and frivolous circumstances in which he had joined up to fight in the war. He also notes how the crowds that greeted his return were smaller and less enthusiastic than those who cheered his departure, and how women no longer look at him but at "the strong men who were whole".

Usage examples of "disabled".

Though Catholic adoption services took considerable care in the placement of children, they were not pointlessly slow and obstructive, as were public agencies, especially when the would-be adopters were solid members of the community like Hatch and Lindsey, and when the adoptee was a disabled child with no option except continued institutionalization.

Certainly, if a female manager or leader is seen crying and emotionally disabled in a situation that might be handled aggressively by a strong male, she will lose prestige in the eyes of many people.

In Key West, the storm disabled the anemometers at the weather observation office, along with seven hundred feet of new concrete dock being installed by the War Department, and finished off the three-story concrete cigar factory of the Havana-American Company, severely damaged in the hurricane the year before.

The general pathos of the idea disabled the criticism of the audience, composed of the authoress and the reader, blinding perhaps both to not a little that was neither brilliant nor poetic.

The horse distemper had completely disabled public modes of transportation citywide, so the two poets were forced to trudge on foot.

Calling the coxswain on deck, he directed that if they were attacked, the cutter should be kept ready for instant use, and in case the vessel was disabled, they would attempt to finish their journey in her.

The two Unit Eleven scientists moved past Dex as he left the tangle of wires on the disabled transformer.

It is also a crime to say such felonious things as someone is elderly, married, youthful, disabled, aged, or gay.

Carkett, and the Foudroyant disabled in such a manner, that her commander struck, as soon as the other English ships, the Swiftsure and the Hampton-court, appeared.

Beginning in 1963, officials at the Willowbrook State School, a residence for developmentally disabled children in Staten Island, New York, intentionally infected healthy children with hepatitis in order to test the effects of gamma globulin on the disease.

He was a bachelor and wealthy, but, unfortunately, he had three or four times every year severe attacks of gout, which always left him crippled in some part or other of his body, so that all his person was disabled.

That means we shall have to recapture the old one if it has been lost, and this disabled gate suggests strongly that it has.

No coating disabled unplowed masers or solar cells for any useful length of time.

However, a few days later the wind veered round to the north and one by one the scattered ships came back, almost all oarless and some with cloaks spread instead of sails, the less disabled taking turns to tow the ones that could barely keep afloat.

Similarly, the governor of a national home for disabled soldiers was released from Ohio custody for serving oleomargarine in the home in violation of an Ohio statute.