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  • verb Present participle of invalid.

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Examples

  • "Let me just say that the vice president and I would never authorize, and would not tolerate, a campaign that aimed specifically at invaliding absentee ballots from members of our armed services," Lieberman said.

    Robert Weissman: Joe Lieberman: 2000 and 2006 2008

  • Now, of this number of men it is not perhaps too much to assume, that more than one-half consists of the noble wreck and remainder of those magnificent armies led to victory by the illustrious Wellington, but certainly not in the colonies, and the present cost of half-pay and invaliding not therefore chargeable to colonial account.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various

  • The aspirant for invaliding sat himself down again at one end of the table, as the captains did at the other.

    Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

  • Each day as he made his appearance at noon in the captain's cabin, he had to wait in miserable state his hour and a half; or two hours, and then to meet the gibing salutation of the captain, of; "Not dead yet, doctor?" with his jokes upon the invaliding suit.

    Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

  • That evening Dr Thompson made the captain's punch, having carefully locked up in his largest tea-chest his invaliding suit.

    Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

  • The next in seniority was entirely adverse to the invaliding, as, without he could invalide too, he would have to go to the West Indies in the place of our surgeon.

    Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

  • In the interim, don't forget the old clothes -- the invaliding suit.

    Rattlin the Reefer Edward Howard 1820

  • Additionally, I will have an analysis of the Supreme Court's obviously momentous decision in Citizens United -- invaliding restrictions on corporate and union election spending -- posted later.

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • Additionally, I will have an analysis of the Supreme Court's obviously momentous decision in Citizens United -- invaliding restrictions on corporate and union election spending -- posted later.

    Signs of the Times 2010

  • Citizens United -- invaliding restrictions on corporate and union election spending

    Salon 2010

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