Someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury.
Confined usually by illness.
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Examples for "invalid"
Examples for "invalid"
1There were several invalid protest ballots including one that carried an obscenity.
2Austria's Interior Ministry confirmed the problem had rendered some postal votes invalid.
3DAT-07: Create stored programs in strict mode to avoid invalid data assignments
4North Korea declared the line in the Yellow Sea invalid in 1999.
5Aunt Ablewhite took her exercise in the afternoon in an invalid chair.
1From shut-in recluse mechanic to partying shamanic police detective within a year.
2An agoraphobic shut-in, with no real friends, family, or genuine human contact.
3She hadn't come here determined to be a social shut-in or anything.
4I sought thee in myself, in my own empty shut-in soul.
5In these shut-in retreats the ancient Irish and Roman Catholic element largely prevails.
6I remember the musty, warm, shut-in odour of the front room.
7On down another dry stream bed, many stony descents in a shut-in canyon.
8The block's other wells are either shut-in, or plugged and abandoned.
9My chief pleasure during that shut-in winter was watching those children.
10His hero felt himself likewise on the shelf, shut-in, stuffed, dead-his trumpet silent.
11It felt as if it had been buried alive, in screaming, shut-in despair.
12The wells will remain shut-in until the on-site investigation is completed, the statement said.
13In addition, most shut-in production from Hurricane Isaac had returned to normal this week.
14A moment later, he found himself in the shut-in office of the Managing Editor.
15The Shoes of Swiftness were hardly any use to him in these shut-in places.
16This past winter, I played the role of reluctant shut-in.