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Cripple Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Cripple? [n] someone whose legs are disabled [v] deprive of the use of a limb, esp. a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" [v] deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Cripple: lame \| stultify Related Terms \| Find terms related to Cripple: abate \| amputee \| attenuate \| blunt \| bugger \| burden \| castrate \| cramp \| cumber \| damage \| damp \| dampen \| deaden \| debilitate \| de-energize \| defective \| deformity \| devitalize \| disable \| disarm \| disenable \| dismember \| drain \| dull \| emasculate \| embarrass \| encumber \| enervate \| enfeeble \| enmesh \| ensnarl \| entangle \| entoil \| entrammel \| entrap \| entwine \| eviscerate \| exhaust \| extenuate \| fetter \| gruel \| hamper \| hamstring \| handicap \| handicapped person \| hobble \| hors de combat \| idiot \| imbecile \| immobilize \| impair \| impede \| inactivate \| incapable \| incapacitate \| involve \| kibosh \| lame \| lay low \| lime \| lumber \| maim \| mayhem \| mitigate \| mutilate \| net \| paralytic \| paraplegic \| press down \| prostrate \| put \| quadriplegic \| queer \| queer the works \| rattle \| reduce \| sabotage \| saddle with \| sap \| shackle \| shake \| shake up \| snarl \| soften up \| spike \| tangle \| the crippled \| the handicapped \| toil \| trammel \| unbrace \| undermine \| unfit \| unman \| unnerve \| unstrengthen \| unstring \| weaken \| weigh down \| wing \| wreck See Also \| crookback \| hamstring \| humpback \| hunchback \| maim \| unfortunate \| unfortunate person \| weaken Cripple In Webster's Dictionary \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. kr["u]ppel, Dan. kr["o]bling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. cre['o]pan to creep. See {Creep}.] 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. I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. --Dryden. \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), a. Lame; halting. [R.] ``The cripple, tardy-gaited night.'' --Shak. \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crippled} (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. {Crippling} (-pl?ng).] 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame. He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey. An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. --Macaulay. \Crip"ple\, [Local. U. S.] (a) Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog. The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the stream ordinarily come and go. --Pennsylvania Law Reports. (b) A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.

Cripple Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Cripple?

[n] someone whose legs are disabled
[v] deprive of the use of a limb, esp. a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life"
[v] deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Cripple: lame | stultify

Cripple In Webster's Dictionary

\Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [OE. cripel, crepel,
crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. kr["u]ppel, Dan.
kr["o]bling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk,
but must creep, fr. AS. cre['o]pan to creep. See {Creep}.]
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.

      I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my
      mind, the reader must determine.         --Dryden.


\Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), a.
Lame; halting. [R.] ``The cripple, tardy-gaited night.''
--Shak.


\Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crippled} (-p'ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Crippling} (-pl?ng).]
1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or
   foot; to lame.

         He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir
                                               W. Scott.

2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for
   service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as,
   to be financially crippled.

         More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the
         energy of the settlement in the Bay.  --Palfrey.

         An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the
         body politic.                         --Macaulay.


\Crip"ple\, [Local. U. S.]
(a) Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or
    with thickets; bog.

          The flats or cripple land lying between high- and
          low-water lines, and over which the waters of the
          stream ordinarily come and go.       --Pennsylvania
                                               Law Reports.
(b) A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.

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