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crip⋅ple
[krip-uh
l] 
noun, verb, -pled, -pling, adjective –noun
| 1. | Sometimes Offensive.
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| 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. jack 1 (def. 27). |
Related forms:
crippler, noun
crip⋅pling⋅ly, adverb
Synonyms:
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.
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 (krĭp'əl) n.
[Middle English crepel, from Old English crypel.] crip'pler n. |
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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.Cripple
Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), a. Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." --Shak.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. 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.Cripple
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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Language Translation for : cripple
Spanish:
lisiado, mutilado, inválido,
German:
zum Krüppel machen,
Japanese:
かたわにする
cripple
O.E. crypel, related to cryppan "to crook, bend," from P.Gmc. *krupilaz, and/or related to O.E. creopan "to creep."
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Main Entry: 1crip·ple
Pronunciation: 'krip-&l
Function: noun
sometimes offensive : a lame or partly disabled individual
Main Entry: 3cripple
Function: transitive verb
Inflected Forms: crip·pled; crip·pling /-(&)-li[ng]/
: to depriveof the use of a limb and especially a leg <crippled by arthritis>
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cripple crip·ple (krĭp'əl)
n.
One that is partially disabled or unable to use a limb or limbs. v. crip·pled, crip·pling, crip·ples
To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.
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