DISABLEMENT Synonyms: 104 Similar and Opposite Words

disablement

noun

as in disability

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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

Most companies have policies addressing pregnancy, disability and other health conditions.

— Lyndon Haviland, Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2026
Additionally, ethnic and Indigenous minorities, such as the Roma people in Europe and the Uyghur people in China, are targets of the practice, as are people with disabilities and transgender and intersex persons.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of disability

Noun

Italy’s invasion of Abyssinia in 1935 had demonstrated the impotence of the League of Nations, and the Spanish Civil War of 1936-9 was a touchstone cause for the British left.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026
In the diaries, Pavese casts his impotence into a kind of worldview.

— Max Norman, Harpers Magazine, 22 Sep. 2026

Definition of impotence

Noun

Authorities have not confirmed whether the driver acted intentionally, or whether a medical emergency, impairment or another factor caused the deadly crash.

— Brittany Miller , Michael Sinkewicz, FOXNews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Investigators have ruled out impairment as a factor in the crash.

— Jennifer McRae, CBS News, 16 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

Noun

Not only were LaMelo Ball and Miles Bridges absent after high-profile summertime trades, but returnees Kon Knueppel and Coby White were also missing because of injury.

— Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 22 Oct. 2026
In addition to a person in his car dying from injuries sustained in the crash, another passenger was severely hurt, the release said.

— Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 21 Oct. 2026

Definition of injury

Noun

And this understanding freed the man from his infirmity – immediately.

— The Christian Science Monitor, Christian Science Monitor, 16 Sep. 2026
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

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