disablements

noun

plural of disablement
as in disabilities

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  1. disabilities
  2. impairments
  3. injuries
  4. damages
  5. disfigurements
  6. lesions
  7. harms
Noun
  • Celebrate Shop, an annual two-day shopping event, featured 35 entrepreneurs and business owners with disabilities.
    — Kennedy Cook, CBS News, 7 Nov. 2026
  • His itinerary includes a visit to a federal prison in Buenos Aires and a stop at a care center for people with intellectual and physical disabilities in Claypole which has been affected by the Milei cuts.
    — Christopher Lamb, CNN Money, 6 Nov. 2026
Definition of disabilities
Noun
  • Accessibility for those with mobility impairments There is wheelchair access in all of the public areas, including the spa and swimming pools, as well as two fully accessible rooms located in Building 2 (the central Bauhaus building).
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Nov. 2026
  • At the same time, Blumenreich said an individual could have a moderate size stroke in the part of the brain that doesn’t cause as significant impairments.
    — Livi Stanford, Hartford Courant, 3 Nov. 2026
Definition of impairments
Noun
  • The return game battled despite dealing with injuries before and within the game.
    — Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 9 Nov. 2026
  • The driver was pronounced dead at the crash site, and two of his passengers died from their injuries at separate hospitals.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 9 Nov. 2026
Definition of injuries
Noun
  • The club remained closed after the shooting, and the filing seeks $1 million in damages.
    — Amelia Mugavero, CBS News, 2 Nov. 2026
  • General assertions of lost profits, out-of-pocket expenses and reputational harm did not satisfy the requirement to plead special damages, Gayles wrote.
    — Antonio María Delgado, Miami Herald, 2 Nov. 2026
Definition of damages
Noun
  • Facing the World, which helps children with facial disfigurements gain access to reconstructive surgery, was co-founded in 2002 by her father, plastic surgeon Norman Waterhouse.
    — Ellise Shafer, Variety, 28 May 2026
Definition of disfigurements
Noun
  • The stars have grown lethargic and limp, with lesions spread across their bodies, their arms falling off or disintegrating.
    — Joseph Ogilvy, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 Oct. 2026
  • First, cats started showing up to the city’s clinics very sick and covered with lesions.
    — Dominique Mosbergen, Time, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of lesions
Noun
  • Mangione’s lawyers say the harms addressed in the state and federal cases are one and the same.
    — Shayna Jacobs, NBC news, 31 Oct. 2026
  • But this privilege only further highlights the deep harms caused by inadequate funding for our schools.
    — Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Definition of harms
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“Disablements.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/disablements. Accessed 10 Nov. 2026.

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