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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, especially 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.
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8.
Carpentry. jack1 (def. 27).
Related forms
crip·pler, noun
crip·pling·ly, adverb
un·crip·pled, adjective
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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Word Origin & History
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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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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