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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)

  1. (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.

Translations

Noun

cripple (plural cripples)

  1. (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.
  2. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
  3. (dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
  4. (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)

  1. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired
    The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
  2. (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
  3. (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.
  4. 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.
  5. (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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impair

English

Alternative forms

  • empair (obsolete, rare)

Etymology

From Middle English impairen, empeiren, from Old French empeirier, variant of empirier (to worsen), from Vulgar Latin *imp?i?r?, from im- + Late Latin p?i?r? (to make worse), from peior (worse), comparative of malus (bad).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?m?p??/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)

Verb

impair (third-person singular simple present impairs, present participle impairing, simple past and past participle impaired)

  1. (transitive) To weaken; to affect negatively; to have a diminishing effect on.
  2. (intransitive, archaic) To grow worse; to deteriorate.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Milton to this entry?)

Synonyms

  • blunt, diminish, hurt, lessen, mar, reduce, weaken, worsen

Derived terms

  • impairment

Translations

Adjective

impair (comparative more impair, superlative most impair)

  1. (obsolete) Not fit or appropriate; unsuitable.

Further reading

  • impair in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • impair in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • impair at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin imp?r, equivalent to im- +? pair.

Adjective

impair (feminine singular impaire, masculine plural impairs, feminine plural impaires)

  1. odd (of a number)
    Antonym: pair

Derived terms

  • fonction impaire
  • nombre impair

References

  • “impair” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Antonyms

  • pair

Anagrams

  • primai

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