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cripple
English
Alternative forms
- creeple (dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep +? -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?k??pl/
- Rhymes: -?p?l
Adjective
cripple (not comparable)
- (now rare, dated) Crippled.
- 1599 — William Shakespeare, Henry V, iv 1
- And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.
- 1599 — William Shakespeare, Henry V, iv 1
Translations
Noun
cripple (plural cripples)
- (sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- He returned from war a cripple.
- I am […] a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
- A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
- (dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
- (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
Synonyms
- disabled person
Derived terms
- Cripple Creek
- emotional cripple
Translations
Verb
cripple (third-person singular simple present cripples, present participle crippling, simple past and past participle crippled)
- to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired
- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
- (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
- (figuratively) to cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally
- 2019, Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, I Don't Care
- With all these people all around / I'm crippled with anxiety / But I'm told it's where I'm s'posed to be.
- 2019, Ed Sheeran, Justin Bieber, I Don't Care
- to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
- The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
- (slang, video games) to nerf something which is overpowered
Synonyms
- (cause physical disability): see Thesaurus:disable
- (seriously damage): see Thesaurus:destroy or Thesaurus:harm
- (release with reduced functionality): limit, restrict
Translations
See also
- disfigurement
- lame
- paralysis
- disability
Anagrams
- clipper
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crippler
English
Etymology
cripple +? -er
Noun
crippler (plural cripplers)
- A person who, or thing which cripples.
- A corrugated board used to grain leather.
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989
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