Found 3 items, similar to cripple.
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Definition: cripple
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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.
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I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my
mind, the reader must determine. --Dryden.
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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.
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Cripple
\Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), a.
Lame; halting. [R.]
“The cripple, tardy-gaited night.”
--Shak.
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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.
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He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir
W. Scott.
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2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for
service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as,
to be financially crippled.
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More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the
energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey.
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An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the
body politic. --Macaulay.
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