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
cripple (not comparable)
(now rare, dated) Crippled.
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.
• disabled person
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
• (cause physical disability): see disable
• (seriously damage): see destroy or harm
• (release with reduced functionality): limit, restrict
• clipper
Source: Wiktionary
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
13 January 2025
(noun) the process of becoming softened and saturated as a consequence of being immersed in water (or other liquid); “a good soak put life back in the wagon”
The first coffee-house in Mecca dates back to the 1510s. The beverage was in Turkey by the 1530s. It appeared in Europe circa 1515-1519 and was introduced to England by 1650. By 1675 the country had more than 3,000 coffee houses, and coffee had replaced beer as a breakfast drink.
