disabled

/dis-ˈā-bəld/

from past participle of disable

adjective

  1. impaired or limited by a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition : affected by disability

  2. incapacitated by illness or injury

  3. rendered inoperative (as by being damaged or deliberately altered)

Decades of government policy and a Supreme Court decision … have established that public services for all disabled people must be provided in the least restrictive and most integrated environment possible.

… 17.4% of all match-ending injuries, were attributable to OT (orthopedic trauma). Two such stoppages involved multiple roundhouse kicks directed at the lateral aspect of the knee. The disabled competitors were unable to continue because of marked pain with weight bearing.

verb

  1. to make ineffective or inoperative

  2. to impair physically or mentally : to cause disability in

  3. to deprive of legal right, qualification, or capacity

disable a bomb

Automobile accidents kill nearly 50,000 people each year. … Accidents maim or disable another 80,000.

weaken enfeeble debilitate undermine sap disable mean to lose or cause to lose strength or vigor. weaken may imply loss of physical strength, health, soundness, or stability or of quality, intensity, or effective power. enfeeble implies a condition of marked weakness and helplessness.

noun

  1. a list of players on a baseball team who are unable to play because of injury or illness and are removed from the active roster : injured list —usually used with the —abbreviation DL