Synonym: disabled, hors de combat. Similar words: man of action, cause of action, course of action, faction, rarefaction, liquefaction, benefaction, petrifaction. Meaning: adj. so badly injured as to be excused from continuing.
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1. This machine is out of action.
2. He is out of action following an ankle injury.
3. A fire has put the factory out of action.
4. The photocopier is out of action again.
5. The photocopier is out of action today.
6. I'm afraid the TV's out of action.
7. I'm out of action with a sore back.
8. He's been out of action for 16 months with a serious knee injury.
9. The lift started off, juddered, and went out of action.
10. Jackson's torn ligaments will keep him out of action for the rest of the season.
11. The enemy guns put many of our tanks out of action.
12. Jon is out of action for weeks with a broken leg.
13. This new injury will put him out of action for several weeks.
14. The injury will keep him out of action for a month.
15. A knee injury put him out of action for three months.
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16. Huge sections of the rail network are out of action.
17. The goalkeeper is still out of action with a knee strain.
18. The injury to her back will put her out of action for several weeks.
19. Girardo was out of action with various injuries for most of last season.
20. One elephant put an electric fence out of action by dropping an uprooted tree on it.
21. They'd been out of action because the church's spire was too weak to support them.
22. Allen Webb, the jump jockey, will be out of action for a week after injuring his neck while riding out.
23. But remember that with one eye out of action, your stereoscopic vision is disabled and that means poor range perception.
24. These were strategic points: a bombed bridge could put the line out of action for as long as a year.
25. They require a lot of maintenance and some may be out of action for up to a day a week on a regular basis.
26. This actually allows the lift maintenance monitoring organisations to know that the lift is out of action before you do.
27. She sustained a mild concussion in the game against the Xplosion, and was held out of action.
28. I dropped my M 16 into the mud and was out of action for a few minutes.
29. Her fingers still clung to the spokes, keeping one wheel out of action.
30. A few moments later the two photographers came sheepishly to tell me that the video camera was out of action.
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