DISABLEMENT Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

disablement

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as in disability

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Recent Examples of disablement These can cause severe scarring or disablement and may lead to amputations. — Jordan King, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Oct. 2025 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

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Noun

Elderly people and those with disabilities are less able to avoid rodents, especially at night.

— Sana Noor Haq, CNN Money, 5 July 2026
The program supports people with limited income who are blind, age 65 or older, or have a qualifying disability.

— Sydney Topf, The Washington Examiner, 4 July 2026

Definition of disability

Noun

The Iran and Gaza wars have thrown that absence and European strategic impotence into sharp relief.

— Galip Dalay, Time, 7 July 2026
So imagine his feelings of impotence and rage when the boy is killed anyway, by an impossible arrow that finds its target through a tiny crack in a door and then, apparently, vanishes.

— Jessica Kiang, Variety, 21 May 2026

Definition of impotence

Noun

Not everyone with high levels of amyloid will progress to dementia, just as having tau in the brain does not dictate cognitive impairment later in life, Buckley said.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 15 July 2026
Study participants with very low p-tau217 levels likewise had a low risk of developing cognitive impairment over the five- to 10-year period.

— ABC News, ABC News, 15 July 2026

Definition of impairment

Noun

And, when pets suffered from cancer or heart failure or debility, conversations about what to do next were emotional but often straightforward.

— Sunita Puri, New Yorker, 6 June 2026
His trajectory is one of softening, from the swaggering knight of the opening to the irrepressible lover of the second act to his final physical debility.

— Justin Davidson, Vulture, 11 Mar. 2026

Definition of debility

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The car overturned at the Top Gear Dunsfold Park Aerodrome, dragging Flintoff face down underneath for about 50 metres and leaving him with severe facial disfigurement injuries, rib injuries and trauma.

— Max Goldbart, Deadline, 13 July 2026
That incident, which Johnson County court documents say occurred on May 13, resulted in great bodily harm or disfigurement of another person, and a level-five felony charge.

— Sofi Zeman, Kansas City Star, 6 July 2026

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According to Ferreiro, structured breaks can improve cognitive performance and help reduce the risk of emotional exhaustion.

— Ana Morales, Vogue, 11 July 2026
Anger, isolation, and exhaustion are endemic to each tennis era, as much a part of the game as the fuzz on the balls.

— Josh Levin, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026

Definition of exhaustion

Noun

But his injury also comes as the Hawks’ roster has had a lot of turnover across the last two years.

— Lauren Williams, AJC.com, 16 July 2026
Debris from the interceptions fell in several locations but no injuries or damage were reported, the Jordanian Armed Forces said, according to the state news agency Petra.

— Sophia Saifi, CNN Money, 16 July 2026

Definition of injury

Noun

And by that, researchers mean methods to drastically reduce the amount of illness and infirmity that currently afflict people in old age.

— John Ramos, CBS News, 3 May 2026
Colette, Mark Twain, and William Wordsworth all wrote habitually from bed, for reasons having to do with infirmity, comfort, and warding off distraction; Frida Kahlo painted self-portraits from bed, including the dreams that transcended her physical confinement.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Apr. 2026

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