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.The above text is a snippet from Wikipedia: Cripple
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cripple
Noun
- 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.
- A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
- scrapple.
Verb
- to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
- 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.
Adjective
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