able-bodied

Speech parts

1. able-bodied - Adjective

2. able-bodied - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having a sound, strong body; physically competent; robust.

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able bodied

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Examples

I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s. A. Scott Berg

I don't see myself as disabled. There's nothing I can't do that able-bodied athletes can do. Oscar Pistorius

The arrogance of the able-bodied is staggering. Yes, maybe we'd like to be able to get places quickly, and carry things in both hands but only because we have to keep up with the rest of you ... We would rather be just like us, and have that be all right. Barbara Kingsolver

In a home where there is an able-bodied husband, he is expected to be the breadwinner. Ezra Taft Benson

Men and swords. My father said that if you put any able-bodied man, no matter how peaceful, into a room with a sword and a practice dummy and leave him alone, eventually the man would pick up the sword and try to stab the dummy. It is human nature. Ilona Andrews

I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied. Natalie du Toit

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