DISABLEMENT Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

disablement

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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

The spokesperson stressed that the agency will still require Head Start programs to provide support for mental and physical health, family and disability services and school readiness preparation, as is mandated by federal law.

— Maia Nehme, Hartford Courant, 4 Oct. 2026
Benefits are also rising because more people are claiming disability and incapacity benefits.

— The Week UK, TheWeek, 4 Oct. 2026

Definition of disability

Noun

Police said in a social media post that officers contacted the man at the scene and observed signs of possible impairment from a central nervous system stimulant.

— Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 7 Oct. 2026
Accessibility for those with mobility impairments Two of the villas—one Dune One-Bedroom Pool Villa and one Dune Two-Bedroom Pool Villa—are wheelchair accessible.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 6 Oct. 2026

Definition of impairment

Noun

In recent years, white supremacists have embraced the concept of lactose intolerance as a distinguishing debility of nonwhite people.

— Hilary Smith, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
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

Definition of debility

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After the shooting, the internet lit up with macabre stories of death, disfigurement, and disability wrought by claim denials—DJs in clubs even spun dance music with Luigi’s face flashing behind them.

— Elizabeth Nicholas, Vanity Fair, 9 Sep. 2026
To my eye, Rouy’s strategy of disfigurement also owes a debt to Francis Bacon, except a portrait by that artist offers up a person as a specimen to the viewer, like a dead butterfly pinned to a collector board.

— David Lê, Curbed, 8 Sep. 2026

Definition of disfigurement

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It is better understood as a symptom of political exhaustion and vulnerability following years of division, economic hardship, and war.

— Michael Robbins, Foreign Affairs, 2 Oct. 2026
The Touring’s heated and ventilated leather seats and lumbar support helped keep exhaustion at bay.

— Robert Duffer, AJC.com, 2 Oct. 2026

Definition of exhaustion

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How Doctors Diagnose and Treat It Health care providers use the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to classify trypanophobia as a specific phobia of the blood-injection-injury type.

— Samantha Agate, Charlotte Observer, 8 Oct. 2026
But with nearly half of the roster sidelined because of injuries or resting, Adou Thiero at least tried to inject some life into a sleepy preseason back-to-back.

— Senior Editor, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of injury

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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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