Synonyms for able-bodied
able-bod·ied

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1. able, able-bodiedadjective

   having a strong healthy body

   "an able seaman"; "every able-bodied young man served in the army"

   Synonyms:
   capable, able

   Antonyms:
   unfit

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1. able-bodiedadjective

   Synonyms:
   stalwart, brawny, robust, sturdy, strapping muscular

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1. List of paraphrases for "able-bodied":

   job-ready, valid, sound, non-disabled, healthy, employable

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1. Harry Daniels:

   Mr. Shaw’s life has been greatly impacted in the worst way, he was once an able-bodied young man before he was assaulted. He can no longer stand or walk. He is a prisoner of his own body. He spends a majority of his day in bed due to the fact he does n’t have the resources to hire a full-time caregiver. POLICE SEARCHING FOR MISSING TEXAS MOM CHRISTINA POWELL, LAST SEEN RUSHING FROM HOME :' MY WONDERFUL CHRISSY'.

2. Curtis Sliwa:

   [But]during the pandemic, the Department of Homeless Services has broken its own rules on sex offenders and where they are housed over and over again, within the past month, 700 single, able-bodied males and 100 females have been moved into three hotels overnight. These are not zero-tolerance shelters meaning they are not searched for drugs, paraphernaliaor alcohol, only for weapons.

3. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake:

   He was dragged a bit, but then you see him using his legs to get into the van, so he was able-bodied when he was in the van, and we know that when he was finally taken out of the van, he was unresponsive.

4. President Barack Obama:

   If we as a society aren't willing to deal honestly with issue of race, then we can't just expect police departments to solve these problems, if communities are being isolated and segregated, without opportunity and without investment and without jobs -- if we politicians are simply ramping up long sentences for nonviolent drug crimes that end up devastating communities, we can't then ask the police to be the ones to solve the problem when there are no able-bodied men in the community, or kids are growing up without intact households.

5. Daniel Dale:

   Donald Trump Jr. is touting baseless election-rigging claims in videos posted to Facebook and Twitter asking' able-bodied' people to join an election security' army' for Joe Biden father, facebook and Twitter affixed labels to the video pointing to accurate information about voting, but neither company said the video violated its election integrity rules in a way that would result in it being removed. Twitter labeled the video only after being asked about it by CNN on Wednesday. The video had been on its site since Monday.