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Definition of Crippled
1. Adjective. Disabled in the feet or legs. "A game leg"
Similar to: Unfit
Derivative terms: Gameness, Gimpiness, Lameness
Definition of Crippled
1. a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded.
Definition of Crippled
1. Adjective. (context: usually offensive) Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility. ¹
2. Adjective. (context: usually offensive) Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury. ¹
3. Verb. (past of cripple) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crippled
1. cripple [v] - See also: cripple
Medical Definition of Crippled
1. Denoting a person who, owing to a physical defect or injury, is partially or completely disabled. Origin: A.S. Creopan, to creep (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crippled
Literary usage of Crippled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"The surgeon-in-chief of one of the great orthopedic hospitals in New York estimates
that 90 per cent of all crippled children could be cured without ..."
2. Problems of Child Welfare by George Benjamin Mangold (1914)
"crippled Children. While institutional care must be provided for many crippled
... In London excellent provision is made for crippled children, sixteen day ..."
3. Social Work by Edward Thomas Devine (1922)
"THE crippled Those who have suffered amputation of an arm or a leg, or who are
crippled by rheumatism, by tuberculosis of bones or joints, by infantile ..."
4. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1912)
"HENRY LING TAYLOR — Post Graduate Hospital — crippled — i to 3. 4:3° to 5:30.
... ROYAL WHITMAN — Hospital for Ruptured and crippled — i to 3. ..."
5. Transactions of the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical and (1918)
"The crippled Soldier in Industry BY FRANK B. ... How to Put the crippled Soldier
on the Payroll. The Trained Nurse and Hospital Review (May, ..."
6. American Physical Education Review by American Physical Education Association (1898)
"THE EDUCATION OF crippled CHILDREN.* IT has been said that it is a false
humanitarianism, which makes much of the weak and deformed, and it is undoubtedly ..."
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