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   invalid

   /ˈɪnvəlɪd/

   noun

   • 1. a person made weak or disabled by illness or injury: "she spent the rest of her life as an invalid"

   verb

   • 1. remove (someone) from active service in the armed forces because of injury or illness: "he was badly wounded and invalided out of the infantry"
   • ▪ disable (someone) by injury or illness: "an officer invalided by a chest wound"

   Word Origin mid 17th century (as an adjective in the sense ‘infirm or disabled’): a special sense of invalid2, with a change of pronunciation.

   Derivatives

   • 1. invalidism noun

   Scrabble Points: 11

   • I

     1

   • N

     1

   • V

     4

   • A

     1

   • L

     1

   • I

     1

   • D

     2

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