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Webster 1913 Edition
Cripple
Crip′ple
(krĭp′p’l)
, Noun.
[OE.
cripel
, crepel
, crupel
, AS. crypel
(akin to D. kreuple
, G. krüppel
, Dan. kröbling
, Icel. kryppill
), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. creópan
to creep. See Creep
.] 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
(krĭp′p’l)
, Adj.
Lame; halting.
[R.]
“The cripple, tardy-gaited night.” Shak.
Crip′ple
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Crippled
(-p’ld)
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Crippling
(-pl?ng)
.] 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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cripple
CRIPPLE
,Noun.
The word may signify one who is partially or totally disabled from using his limbs.
See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing.
CRIPPLE
,Adj.
CRIPPLE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To lame; to deprive of the use of the limbs, particularly of the legs and feet.2.
To disable; to deprive of the power of exertion. We say, a fleet was crippled in the engagement.Definition 2024
cripple
cripple
English
Alternative forms
- creeple (dialectal)
Adjective
cripple (comparative more cripple, superlative most cripple)
- Crippled.
- 1599 — William Shakespeare, Henry V, iv 1
- And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
- 1599 — William Shakespeare, Henry V, iv 1
Translations
Crippled
Noun
cripple (plural cripples)
- (often offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- He returned from war a cripple.
- Dryden
- I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
- 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
Derived terms
Translations
person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities
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shortened wooden stud or brace
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 get a physical disability
- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
- (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
- My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
- to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
- The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
Translations
to give someone a physical disability
to damage seriously; to destroy