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Invalid   /ˈɪnvələd/  /ˈɪnvəlɪd/  /ɪnvˈæləd/   Listen
adjective
Invalid  adj.  
1.
Of no force, weight, or cogency; not valid; weak.
2.
(Law) Having no force, effect, or efficacy; void; null; as, an invalid contract or agreement.


Invalid  adj.  Not well; feeble; infirm; sickly; as, he had an invalid daughter.


noun
Invalid  n.  A person who is weak and infirm; one who is disabled for active service; especially, one in chronic ill health who is unable to care for himself.


verb
Invalid  v. t.  
1.
To make or render invalid or infirm. "Invalided, bent, and almost blind."
2.
To classify or enroll as an invalid. "Peace coming, he was invalided on half pay."





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"Invalid" Quotes from Famous Books



... sort of girl, with a happy, half-roguish face that seemed on the lookout for somebody to play with. Her mother, like most of the people in the big hotel, was an invalid; the girl, a dutiful and patient daughter. They had arrived that very day apparently. A laugh is a revealing thing, he thought as he fell asleep to dream of a lob-sided olive rolling consciously towards ...
— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors
... in Nuremberg. Yes, something of which she was still ignorant must be oppressing Wolff, and, with the firm resolve to give him no peace until he confessed everything to her, she returned to the couch of her invalid mother. ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... Clonbrony. "Miss Broadhurst always listens to you. Do, my dear, persuade Miss Broadhurst to take care of herself, and let us take her to the inner little pagoda, where she can be so warm and so retired—the very thing for an invalid—Colambre! pioneer the way for us, for the ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. 6 • Maria Edgeworth
... little do we sympathize with the physician. How much oppressed he must feel, with the charge upon him. He is the adviser—to him is left the direction of the potions which may be the healing medicine or the deadly poison. He may select a remedy powerful to cure, he may prescribe one fatal to the invalid. How is he to draw the nice line of distinction? he must consider the disease, the constitution, the probable causes of the attack. His reputation is at stake—his happiness—for many eyes are turned to him, to read an opinion he may not ...
— Aunt Phillis's Cabin - Or, Southern Life As It Is • Mary H. Eastman
... Tangan in Mr. Udny's pinnace as far as the north frontier, at a spot now passed by the railway to Darjeeling, restored the invalid. "I am no hunter," he wrote, while Thomas was shooting wild buffaloes, but he was ever adding to his store of observations of the people, the customs and language. Meanwhile he was longing for letters from Fuller and Pearce and ...
— The Life of William Carey • George Smith


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