Disabled and Infirm

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Disabled adjective - Deprived of the power to perform one or more natural bodily activities.

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Infirm is a synonym for disabled in bedridden topic. In some cases you can use "Infirm" instead an adjective "Disabled", when it comes to topics like incapacitated, differently abled.

Infirm adjective - Lacking bodily strength.

Usage example: the elderly and infirm have to be especially careful during the winter months

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Disabled is a synonym for infirm in bedridden topic. You can use "Disabled" instead an adjective "Infirm".

Nearby Word: infirmity

Most of the resources were shifted into the concentration camps at that point, and more secretive killing of the disabled and infirm continued to the end of the war.

Source: Useful Notes / Nazi Germany
A Nazi by Any Other Name: The Galactic Alliance is increasingly starting to resemble this trope, as we learn that they brainwash children into single-minded drone-soldiers, kill all the infirm and disabled and fight a war of extermination in the name of genetic purity.

Source: Anime / Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
In Gilbert Hernandez's "Palomar" stories in Love and Rockets, the only characters who don't have lots of sex (shown on-panel quite frequently for a non-porn comic) are prepubescent children, the infirm elderly, and the mentally disabled.

Source: Everybody Has Lots of Sex

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