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廃人 — meaning in English

haijin

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English meaning

  • cripple noun An outdated and now offensive term for a person with a serious physical disability.
  • invalid adj Not legally or officially acceptable; not valid.

Senses

廃人 is used for these senses in English:

  • cripple (offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
  • invalid (dated, sometimes, offensive) 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.

cripple — full definition

  1. noun An outdated and now offensive term for a person with a serious physical disability.
  2. verb To severely damage or disable something, physically or otherwise.

invalid — full definition

  1. adj Not legally or officially acceptable; not valid.
  2. noun A person who is chronically ill, disabled, or too weak to care for themselves.

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