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wheelchair

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English

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A wheelchair.
A dog wheelchair.

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From wheel +‎ chair.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wheelchair (plural wheelchairs)

  1. A chair mounted on large wheels for the transportation or use of a sick or disabled person.
    • 2021 January 13, Paul Clifton, “Island Line bids farewell to 1930s "icon of transport"...”, in Rail, page 9:
      "And there are aspirations that we must rightly meet - people travelling in a wheelchair should be able to get on and off the train."
  2. (attributive) Designed for use by wheelchairbound people.
  3. (by extension) Any device involving wheels designed to assist a non-human animal with locomotion.

Usage notes

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  • See wheelchairbound. The expressions bound to a wheelchair and confined to a wheelchair are offensive, as wheelchairs are intended as freedom enhancers.

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Persian: ویلچر (vilčer)

Translations

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Verb

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wheelchair (third-person singular simple present wheelchairs, present participle wheelchairing, simple past and past participle wheelchaired)

  1. to move using a wheelchair
    • 1991, Gosta Blennow, Jaak Jaeken, Lars Martin Wiklund, “Neurological Findings in the Carbohydrate-deficient Glycoprotein Syndrome”, in Acta Paediatrica[1], volume 80, number s375, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 14–20:
      Almost all of them learned wheelchairing and all learned to manage to eat by themselves.
    • 1996 May 14, “'Human Race'raises fundsfor charit”, in BYU Daily Universe[2]:
      People who took part walked, jogged, ran, rollerbladed and wheelchaired the five kilometers
    • 1996 June 2, “3,000 JOIN SPIRITED WALK TO HELP RAISE FUNDS IN FIGHT WITH CANCER”, in scholar.lib.vt.edu[3]:
      They strolled, ran, walked and wheelchaired the track.

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