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Definition of Cripple
1. Verb. Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless. "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
2. Noun. Someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back.
Specialized synonyms: Crookback, Humpback, Hunchback
3. Verb. Deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg. "The accident has crippled her for life"
Definition of Cripple
1. n. 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.
2. a. Lame; halting.
3. v. t. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
Definition of Cripple
1. Adjective. Crippled. ¹
2. Noun. (context: sometimes offensive) a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body. ¹
3. Noun. a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window. ¹
4. Noun. (dialect US South except Louisiana) scrapple. ¹
5. Verb. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability ¹
6. Verb. (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy ¹
7. Verb. to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Cripple
1. to disable or impair [v -PLED, -PLING, -PLES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cripple
Literary usage of Cripple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1918)
"It states how She cripple can be enabled to compete successfully with normal
workers in ... It calls attention to the fact that the cripple after receiving ..."
2. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1908)
"TEMPORARY STRIKE AT cripple CREEK On March 16th, the week during which a stay of
proceedings had been granted was ended, and the cripple Creek District ..."
3. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"There are many questions of interest and importance in connection with the
ventilation of the mines in the cripple Creek district, such as the menace to ..."
4. Economic Geology: With Special Reference to the United States by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"cripple Creek (63).—This district, which is a most important one in this ...
Sections showing possible outline of the cripple Creek volcanic cone at the ..."
5. Economic Geology: With Special Reference to the United States by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"cripple Creek (63).—This district, which is a most important one in this ...
Sections showing possible outline of the cripple Creek volcanic cone at the ..."
6. Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers by American Society of Mechanical Engineers (1918)
"It states how She cripple can be enabled to compete successfully with normal
workers in ... It calls attention to the fact that the cripple after receiving ..."
7. The History of Political Parties in the Province of New York, 1760-1776 by Carl Lotus Becker (1908)
"TEMPORARY STRIKE AT cripple CREEK On March 16th, the week during which a stay of
proceedings had been granted was ended, and the cripple Creek District ..."
8. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1917)
"There are many questions of interest and importance in connection with the
ventilation of the mines in the cripple Creek district, such as the menace to ..."
9. Economic Geology: With Special Reference to the United States by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"cripple Creek (63).—This district, which is a most important one in this ...
Sections showing possible outline of the cripple Creek volcanic cone at the ..."
10. Economic Geology: With Special Reference to the United States by Heinrich Ries (1910)
"cripple Creek (63).—This district, which is a most important one in this ...
Sections showing possible outline of the cripple Creek volcanic cone at the ..."
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