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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 bodyplay

  Familiarity information: ABLE-BODIED used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ABLE-BODIED (adjective)


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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