different between cripple vs mutilate
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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mutilate
English
Etymology
From Latin mutilatus, the past participle of mutilo (“to mutilate”), itself from mutilus (“maimed”).
Pronunciation
- (verb) IPA(key): /?mju?t?le?t/
- (adjective) IPA(key): /?mju?t?l?t/
Verb
mutilate (third-person singular simple present mutilates, present participle mutilating, simple past and past participle mutilated)
- To physically harm as to impair use, notably by cutting off or otherwise disabling a vital part, such as a limb.
- To destroy beyond recognition.
- (figuratively) To render imperfect or defective.
- 1862, George Long, translation of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book V:
- For two reasons then it is right to be content with that which happens to thee; the one, because it was done for thee and prescribed for thee, and in a manner had reference to thee, originally from the most ancient causes spun with thy destiny; and the other, because even that which comes severally to every man is to the power which administers the universe a cause of felicity and perfection, nay even of its very continuance. For the integrity of the whole is mutilated, if thou cuttest off anything whatever from the conjunction and the continuity either of the parts or of the causes. And thou dost cut off, as far as it is in thy power, when thou art dissatisfied, and in a manner triest to put anything out of the way.
- 1862, George Long, translation of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, Book V:
Synonyms
- maim
- mangle
Derived terms
- mutilation
- mutilative
- mutilator
Translations
Adjective
mutilate (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Deprived of, or having lost, an important part; mutilated.
- 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
- mutilate and semi-bodies
- 1643, Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
- (zoology) Having fin-like appendages or flukes instead of legs, as a cetacean does.
Alternative forms
- mut. (abbreviation)
See also
- amputate, amputation
- castrate, castration
- circumcise, circumcision
Anagrams
- ultimate
Italian
Verb
mutilate
- second-person plural present indicative of mutilare
- second-person plural imperative of mutilare
- feminine plural of mutilato
Anagrams
- multiate
- ultimate
Latin
Verb
mutil?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of mutil?
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