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Noun: invalid in-vu-lid- Someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury
- shut-in Verb: invalid in-vu-lid- Force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen
- Injure permanently
"He was invalided in a car accident" - disable, incapacitate, handicap Adjective: invalid in'va-lid- Having no cogency or legal force
"invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's licence" - No longer valid
"the licence is invalid"
Derived forms: invalided, invaliding, invalids See also: bad, expired, fallacious, false, illegitimate, invalidated, invalidness, null, nullified, sophistic, sophistical, uncollectible, unsound, void Type of: diseased person, injure, remove, sick person, sufferer, wound Antonym: valid Part of: homebound Encyclopedia: Invalid |