According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.
crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game
(adjective) disabled in the feet or legs; “a crippled soldier”; “a game leg”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
crippled
(usually offensive) Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
(usually offensive) Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
• noncrippled
• uncrippled
crippled
simple past tense and past participle of cripple
Source: Wiktionary
Crip"pled (krp"p'ld), a.
Definition: Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." Longfellow.
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
7 November 2024
(verb) remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing; “Please erase the formula on the blackboard--it is wrong!”
According to Guinness World Records, the largest coffee shop is the Al Masaa Café, which has 1,050 seats. The coffee shop was inaugurated in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on 13 August 2014.