invalid
/ˈɪn.və.lɪd/ noun C2- Any person with a disability or illness.
- A person who is confined to home or bed because of illness, disability or injury; one who is too sick or weak to care for themselves.
Plural invalids
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Thanks,” murmured the invalid, extending one hand.
On the third night after Brunton’s disappearance, the nurse, finding her patient sleeping nicely, had dropped into a nap in the armchair, when she woke in the early morning to find the bed empty, the window open, and no signs of the invalid.
I say normal cases, because ill-health and physical weakness reproduce the signs of old age, even when the invalid is a youth.
The stout young man had left us, but his sister still remained with her hand in that of the invalid.
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