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shut-in

n. someone who is incapacitated by a chronic illness or injury

invalid

v. force to retire, remove from active duty, as of firemen

handicap, disable, incapacitate

v. injure permanently; "He was disabled in a car accident"

invalid

adj. no longer valid; "the license is invalid"

invalid

adj. "a false start"; "a false alarm"

invalid

adj. having no cogency or legal force; "invalid reasoning"; "an invalid driver's license"

irrelevant

adj. no longer having force or currency: "a dead issue"; "a dead law"

hurt, wound, spite, injure, offend

v. hurt the feelings of; "She hurt me when she did not include me among her guests"; "This remark really bruised me ego"

hurt, injure, affect negatively, damage financially

v. cause damage or affect negatively; "Our business was hurt by the new competition"

disable, incapacitate, disenable

v. make unable to perform a certain action; "disable this command on your computer"

lame, cripple

v. deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life"

break, damage

v. inflict damage upon; "The snow damaged the roof"; "She damaged the car when she hit the tree"

redress, right, correct, compensate

v. make reparations or amends for; "right a wrongs done to the victims of the Holocaust"

ruin, destroy

v. destroy completely; damage irreparably; "You have ruined my car by pouring sugar in the tank!"; "The tears ruined her make-up"

paralyze, paralyse, make powerless

v. make powerless and unable to function; "The bureaucracy paralyzes the entire operation"

inaccurate, erroneous

adj. containing or characterized by error; "erroneous conclusions"; "the answer was inaccurate"

idle, baseless, groundless, unfounded

adj. without a basis in reason or fact; "baseless gossip"; "the allegations proved groundless"; "idle fears"; "unfounded suspicions"; "unwarranted jealousy"

illogical, unlogical

adj. lacking in correct logical relation

terminated

adj. (of e.g. a contract or term of office) having come to an end

mendacious, fallacious

adj. intentionally untrue; "a mendacious statement"

specious

adj. plausible but false; "a specious claim"; "spurious inferences"

wrong, untrue

adj. not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"

illegitimate

adj. of marriages and offspring; not recognized as lawful

disconnected

adj. not plugged in or connected to a power source; "the iron is disconnected"

drained, run-down

adj. drained of electric charge; discharged; "a dead battery"; "left the lights on and came back to find the battery drained"

out, extinct, extinguished, quenched

adj. being out or having grown cold; "threw his extinct cigarette into the stream"; "the fire is out"

out of play

adj. (of a ball) "a ball that is out of play is dead"

valid

adj. well grounded in logic or truth or having legal force; "a valid inference"; "a valid argument"; "a valid contract"; "a valid license"

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