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crip·ple    Audio Help   [krip-uhl] Pronunciation Key noun, verb, -pled, -pling, adjective
–noun
1.Sometimes Offensive.
a.a person or animal that is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs; a lame or disabled person or animal.
b.a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple.
2.anything that is impaired or flawed.
3.a wounded animal, esp. one shot by a hunter.
4.Carpentry. any structural member shorter than usual, as a stud beneath a window sill.
5.Delaware Valley. a swampy, densely overgrown tract of land.
–verb (used with object)
6.to make a cripple of; lame.
7.to disable; impair; weaken.
–adjective
8.Carpentry. jack1 (def. 27).

[Origin: bef. 950; ME cripel, OE crypel; akin to creep]

crippler, noun
crip·pling·ly, adverb

7. maim. Cripple, disable mean to injure to a degree that interferes with normal activities. To cripple is to injure in such a way as to deprive of the use of a member, particularly a leg. Disable, a more general word, implies any such illness, injury, or impairment: disabled by an attack of malaria; disabled by a wound.
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crip·ple    Audio Help   (krĭp'əl)  Pronunciation Key 
n.  
  1. A person or animal that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple.
  2. A damaged or defective object or device.

tr.v.   crip·pled, crip·pling, crip·ples
  1. To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.
  2. To disable, damage, or impair the functioning of: a strike that crippled the factory.


[Middle English crepel, from Old English crypel.]

crip'pler n.
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
cripple 
O.E. crypel, related to cryppan "to crook, bend," from P.Gmc. *krupilaz, and/or related to O.E. creopan "to creep."

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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cripple

noun
1. someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back 

verb
1. deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" 
2. deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" 

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Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
cripple1 [ˈkripl] verb
to make lame or disabled
Example: He was crippled by a fall from a horse.
Arabic: يَكسَح، يُقْعِـد
Chinese (Simplified): 使跛
Chinese (Traditional): 使跛
Czech: zmrzačit
Danish: lamme; invalidere
Dutch: kreupel maken
Estonian: sandistama
Finnish: rampauttaa
French: estropier
German: zum Krüppel machen
Greek: σακατεύω
Hungarian: megbénít
Icelandic: bækla
Indonesian: pincang
Italian: azzoppare, storpiare
Japanese: かたわにする
Korean: 절름발이[불구자]로 만들다
Latvian: kropļot
Lithuanian: (su)luošinti, (su)žaloti
Norwegian: gjøre til krøpling, bli ufør, forkrøple, lamme
Polish: okaleczyć
Portuguese (Brazil): aleijar
Portuguese (Portugal): aleijar(-se)
Romanian: a schi­lodi
Russian: (по)калечить(ся)
Slovak: zmrzačiť
Slovenian: pohabiti (se)
Spanish: lisiado, mutilado, inválido
Swedish: göra till krympling, lemlästa
Turkish: sakat bırakmak, kötürüm etmek
cripple2 [ˈkripl] verb
to make less strong, less efficient etc
Example: The war has crippled the country's economy.
Arabic: يَشِـل
Chinese (Simplified): 使削弱
Chinese (Traditional): 使削弱
Czech: ochromit
Danish: svække
Dutch: lamleggen
Estonian: halvama
Finnish: lamaannuttaa
French: paralyser
German: lahmlegen
Greek: αποδυναμώνω
Hungarian: megnyomorít
Icelandic: lama; skemma
Indonesian: melumpuhkan
Italian: paralizzare, rendere inefficiente*
Japanese: そこなう
Korean: 무력하게 만들다; 망치다
Latvian: sakropļot; padarīt nederīgu
Lithuanian: susilpninti, padaryti žalos
Norwegian: lamme
Polish: osłabiać
Portuguese (Brazil): danificar
Portuguese (Portugal): danificar
Romanian: a para­liza
Russian: наносить урон
Slovak: ochromiť
Slovenian: ohromiti
Spanish: paralizar, estropear, debilitar
Swedish: lamslå, förstöra
Turkish: belini bükmek, felce uğratmak
cripple [ˈkripl] noun
a lame or disabled person
Example: He's been a cripple since the car accident.
Arabic: كَسيح، مُقْعَـد
Chinese (Simplified): 跛子
Chinese (Traditional): 跛子
Czech: mrzák
Danish: invalid; krøbling
Dutch: invalide
Estonian: vigane
Finnish: raajarikko
French: invalide
German: der Krüppel
Greek: ανάπηρος
Hungarian: nyomorék
Icelandic: bæklaður-, *hreyfihamlaður maður
Indonesian: invalid
Italian: zoppo, storpio
Japanese: 不具者
Korean: 절름발이, 신체 장애자
Latvian: kroplis; invalīds
Lithuanian: luošys, invalidas
Norwegian: krøpling, ufør person
Polish: kaleka
Portuguese (Brazil): aleijado
Portuguese (Portugal): aleijado
Romanian: infirm
Russian: калека
Slovak: invalid
Slovenian: pohabljenec
Spanish: inválido, lisiado, mutilado
Swedish: krympling
Turkish: topal, sakat, kötürüm
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary, © 2000-2006 K Dictionaries Ltd.
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Cripple Creek, VA Zip code(s): 24322

Cripple Creek, CO (city, FIPS 18530) Location: 38.74630 N, 105.17871 W
Population (1990): 584 (543 housing units)
Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This

Cripple

Creep\ (kr[=e]p), v. t. [imp. Crept (kr[e^]pt) (Crope (kr[=o]p), Obs.); p. p. Crept; p. pr. & vb. n. Creeping.] [OE. crepen, creopen, AS. cre['o]pan; akin to D. kruipen, G. kriechen, Icel. krjupa, Sw. krypa, Dan. krybe. Cf. Cripple, Crouch.]

1. To move along the ground, or on any other surface, on the belly, as a worm or reptile; to move as a child on the hands and knees; to crawl.

Ye that walk The earth, and stately tread, or lowly creep. --Milton.

2. To move slowly, feebly, or timorously, as from unwillingness, fear, or weakness.

The whining schoolboy . . . creeping, like snail, Unwillingly to school. --Shak.

Like a guilty thing, I creep. --Tennyson.

3. To move in a stealthy or secret manner; to move imperceptibly or clandestinely; to steal in; to insinuate itself or one's self; as, age creeps upon us.

The sophistry which creeps into most of the books of argument. --Locke.

Of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women. --2. Tim. iii. 6.

4. To slip, or to become slightly displaced; as, the collodion on a negative, or a coat of varnish, may creep in drying; the quicksilver on a mirror may creep.

5. To move or behave with servility or exaggerated humility; to fawn; as, a creeping sycophant.

To come as humbly as they used to creep. --Shak.

6. To grow, as a vine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length. "Creeping vines." --Dryden.

7. To have a sensation as of insects creeping on the skin of the body; to crawl; as, the sight made my flesh creep. See Crawl, v. i., 4.

8. To drag in deep water with creepers, as for recovering a submarine cable.
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Cripple

Cree"ple\ (kr[=e]"p'l), n. [See Cripple.]

1. A creeping creature; a reptile. [Obs.]

There is one creeping beast, or long creeple (as the name is in Devonshire), that hath a rattle at his tail that doth discover his age. --Morton (1632).

2. One who is lame; a cripple. [Obs.]

Thou knowest how lame a creeple this world is. --Donne.
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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.

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), a. Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." --Shak.
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