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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
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