wheelchair
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- noun
- /ˈwiːlˌtʃɛr/
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- Today, five years after his injury, Zack is in a wheelchair and needs round-the-clock care.
- use a wheelchair
- motorized wheelchair
- manual wheelchair
There is tons of wheelchair accessible parking spots.
- There is tons of wheelchair accessible parking spots.
- So that put me in a wheelchair for probably three to four months.
- So we get him out of the wheelchair, we lay him next to the lady.
- This next harness is for the manual wheelchair users.
- I was confined to a wheelchair and I had open skin lesions.
- No need of staying with me all the day, pushing my wheelchair.
- And so he was in a wheelchair, which was hard.
- I touch, I cane, I wheelchair and high life alert.
- And so there's just so a wheelchair is so much more than just a seat.
- Wheelchair wheelchair teaching him how to cat daddy.
- We started seeing them as tubes, monitors, diapers, wheelchairs and expenses.
Examples
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A corridor crowded with patients in wheelchairs with nowhere to go and nothing much to do.
Fiction book (1990) -
He felt a sense of independence when he learned to navigate his wheelchair by himself.
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So that put me in a wheelchair for probably three to four months.
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When I started using the wheelchair, it was a tremendous new freedom.
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A student is in a wheelchair and enrolled in a computerized design and drafting program.
Academic text (2015) -
After her surgery, she relied on a wheelchair to help her get around while she recovered.
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The community center provides a wheelchair for visitors who have difficulty walking.
Synonyms
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A chair with wheels that moves using a small electric motor
A chair with wheels and a cover that a helper pushes to carry sick people at resorts
Compounds
How Mobile
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wheelchair is made from wheel ('round part that turns') and chair ('seat'). So, it means a 'chair with wheels' that helps someone move when they cannot walk.