invalid
verb/ˈɪnvəlɪd/
/ˈɪnvəlɪd/
(British English)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they invalid | /ˈɪnvəlɪd/ /ˈɪnvəlɪd/ |
| he / she / it invalids | /ˈɪnvəlɪdz/ /ˈɪnvəlɪdz/ |
| past simple invalided | /ˈɪnvəlɪdɪd/ /ˈɪnvəlɪdɪd/ |
| past participle invalided | /ˈɪnvəlɪdɪd/ /ˈɪnvəlɪdɪd/ |
| -ing form invaliding | /ˈɪnvəlɪdɪŋ/ /ˈɪnvəlɪdɪŋ/ |
- invalid somebody (out) | invalid somebody (out of something) to force somebody to leave the armed forces because of an illness or injury
- He was invalided out of the army in 1943.
Word Originverb mid 17th cent. (as an adjective in the sense ‘infirm or disabled’): a special sense of invalid (adjective), with a change of pronunciation.
Check pronunciation:
invalid