CRIPPLE

Cripple

A cripple is a person or animal with a physical disability, particularly one who is unable to walk because of an injury or illness. The word was recorded as early as 950 AD, and derives from the Proto-Germanic krupilaz. The German and Dutch words Krüppel and kreupel are cognates.

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cripple

Noun

  1. a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
    He returned from war a cripple.
  2. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
  3. scrapple.

Verb

  1. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
    The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
  2. to damage seriously; to destroy
    My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
  3. 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.

Adjective

  1. Crippled.


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