disablement

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Recent Examples of disablement Playing Arnie, the younger brother to Gilbert (Johnny Depp), DiCaprio doesn’t permit his character to be a simple, adorable variation on disablement. Tim Grierson, Vulture, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for disablement
Noun
  • His legal practice primarily focuses on sports injuries, workers’ comp, and disability benefits, according to his law firm — areas close to home for a former athlete.
    Jalen Williams, Freep.com, 20 Oct. 2025
  • The state of education for students with disabilities was already tenuous.
    Nicole Fallert, USA Today, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The bulk of Jack’s patents were for medical devices, among them a knife used for hair transplants and a prosthetic device for overcoming male impotence.
    Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 30 Sep. 2025
  • That’s one full game of brilliance, and another full game of impotence.
    Zach Berman, New York Times, 29 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • She was charged with reckless driving causing serious impairment of a body function and failure to stop at a scene of accident resulting in serious impairment or death, the prosecutor said.
    Mike Stunson, Kansas City Star, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Keep all pets with sensory impairments on a predictable schedule for feeding, potty breaks, and exercise.
    Maria Azzurra Volpe, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • In Will There Ever Be Another You, the main character struggles with an illness similar to long COVID, descending into a state of debility and psychosis as readers experience the chaos of her unraveling life.
    Brittney Melton, NPR, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The shadow of death and debility haunted American women throughout the nineteenth century.
    Jenny Noyce, JSTOR Daily, 28 June 2024
Noun
  • Severe cases can cause disfigurement and death.
    Carrie Arnold, Scientific American, 14 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • That fear can quickly turn into exhaustion.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Imagine reaching Mars only to collapse from exhaustion, or facing an invisible killer that warps your DNA.
    Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Blaylock was charged with felony injury to a child with serious bodily injury, court records show.
    Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 19 Oct. 2025
  • Bronny James missed the Lakers' preseason finale against the Kings, listed as day-to-day with an ankle injury.
    Matt Audilet, MSNBC Newsweek, 19 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Her infirmity, Lurie says, began in July, 1953, but tremors of premonition course through her work from first to last, as though sickness were naturally expected to arrive, like a punctual guest.
    Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 13 Oct. 2025
  • Humor savors an infirmity — a foible, a failing, a venality, a flaw.
    Big Think, Big Think, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Disablement.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disablement. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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