CRIPPLE

cripple

(noun) someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back

cripple, lame

(verb) deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; “The accident has crippled her for life”

cripple, stultify

(verb) deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; “This measure crippled our efforts”; “Their behavior stultified the boss’s hard work”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

cripple (not comparable)

(now rare, dated) Crippled.

Noun

cripple (plural cripples)

(sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.

A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.

(dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.

(among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.

Synonyms

• disabled person

Verb

cripple (third-person singular simple present cripples, present participle crippling, simple past and past participle crippled)

to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired

(figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy

to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.

(slang, video games) to nerf something which is overpowered

Synonyms

• (cause physical disability): see disable

• (seriously damage): see destroy or harm

• (release with reduced functionality): limit, restrict

Anagrams

• clipper

Source: Wiktionary

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Crip"ple (krp"p'l), n. Etym: [OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. kr, Dan. kr, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. cre to creep. See Creep.]

Definition: One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. Dryden.

Crip"ple (krp"p'l), a.

Definition: Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." Shak.

Crip"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-plng).]

1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. He had crippled the joints of the noble child. Sir W. Scott.

2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. Palfrey. An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. Macaulay.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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