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Hasil cari dari kata atau frase: Cripple (0.01026 detik)
Found 3 items, similar to Cripple.
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: cripple mendengklangkan, pincang
English → English (WordNet) Definition: cripple cripple n : someone whose legs are disabled v 1: deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; “This measure crippled our efforts”; “Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work” [syn: stultify] 2: deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; “The accident has crippled her for life” [syn: lame]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Cripple Cripple \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. [1913 Webster] I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] Cripple \Crip"ple\, (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [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. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), a. Lame; halting. [R.] “The cripple, tardy-gaited night.” --Shak. [1913 Webster] Cripple \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. [1913 Webster] He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster] 2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. [1913 Webster] More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster] An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]

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