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invalidding

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in⋅va⋅lid

1  [in-vuh-lid; Brit. in-vuh-leed]
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–noun
1. an infirm or sickly person.
2. a person who is too sick or weak to care for himself or herself: My father was an invalid the last ten years of his life.
3. Archaic. a member of the armed forces disabled for active service.
–adjective
4. unable to care for oneself due to infirmity or disability: his invalid sister.
5. of or for invalids: invalid diets.
6. (of things) in poor or weakened condition: the invalid state of his rocking chair.
–verb (used with object)
7. to affect with disease; make an invalid: He was invalided for life.
8. to remove from or classify as not able to perform active service, as an invalid.
9. British. to remove or evacuate (military personnel) from an active theater of operations because of injury or illness.
–verb (used without object) Archaic.
10. to become an invalid.
Origin:
1635–45; < F invalide < L invalidus weak. See in- 3 , valid
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Word Origin & History

invalid  (adj.)
1635, "not strong, infirm," also "of no legal force," from L. invalidus "not strong, infirm, weak, feeble," from in- "not" + validus "strong." Meaning "infirm from sickness, disease, or injury" is from 1642. The noun is first recorded 1704, originally of disabled military men. Invalidate is from 1649. Invalides is short for Fr. Hôtel des Invalides, home for old and disabled soldiers in Paris.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Legal Dictionary

Main Entry: in·val·id
Pronunciation: in-'va-l&d
Function: adjective
: being without force or effect under the law invalid> —in·val·id·ly adverb
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

Main Entry: 3in·va·lid
Pronunciation: 'in-v&-l&d, -"lid, Brit usu -"lEd or"in-v&-'lEd
Function: transitive verb
1 : to remove from active duty by reason of sickness or disability invalided out of the army>
2 : to make sickly or disabled invalided by valvular disease>
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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Medical Dictionary

invalid in·va·lid1 (ĭn'və-lĭd)
n.
One who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or disability. adj.
Incapacitated by illness or injury.

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