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ABLE-BODIED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does able-bodied mean?
• ABLE-BODIED (adjective)
The adjective ABLE-BODIED has 1 sense:
1. having a strong healthy body
Familiarity information: ABLE-BODIED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having a strong healthy body
Synonyms:
able; able-bodied
Context example:
every able-bodied young man served in the army
Similar:
fit (physically and mentally sound or healthy)
Context examples
“May I ask if they are all large, able-bodied men with powerful voices?”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The last time I was in the Commons, a civil able-bodied person in a white apron pounced out upon me from a doorway, and whispering the word Marriage-licence in my ear, was with great difficulty prevented from taking me up in his arms and lifting me into a proctor's.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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