different between wreck vs cripple

English

Etymology

From Middle English wrek, from Anglo-Norman wrek, from Old Norse *wrek (Norwegian and Icelandic rek, Swedish vrak), from Proto-Germanic *wrekan?, whence also Old English wrecan (English wreak), Old High German rehhan, Old Saxon wrekan, Gothic ???????????????????????? (wrikan).

Pronunciation

• enPR: r?k, IPA^(key): /???k/
• Rhymes: -?k

Noun

wreck (plural wrecks)

1. Something or someone that has been ruined.

   He was an emotional wreck after the death of his wife.

   Synonym: basket case, mess

2. The remains of something that has been severely damaged or worn down.
   • 1779, William Cowper, Retirement

     To the fair haven of my native home, / The wreck of what I was, fatigued I come.

3. An event in which something is damaged through collision.

   • the wrecks of matter and the crush of worlds

   • Hard and obstinate / As is a rock amidst the raging floods, / 'Gainst which a ship, of succour desolate, / Doth suffer wreck, both of herself and goods.

   • 1883, John Richard Green, The Conquest of England

     Its intellectual life was thus able to go on amidst the wreck of its political life.

4. (law) Goods, etc. cast ashore by the sea after a shipwreck.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)

Synonyms

• crash
• ruins

Derived terms

• catch wreck
• shipwreck
• train wreck

Translations

Verb

wreck (third-person singular simple present wrecks, present participle wrecking, simple past and past participle wrecked)

1. To destroy violently; to cause severe damage to something, to a point where it no longer works, or is useless.

   He wrecked the car in a collision.

   That adulterous hussy wrecked my marriage!

2. To ruin or dilapidate.
3. (Australia) To dismantle wrecked vehicles or other objects, to reclaim any useful parts.
4. To involve in a wreck; hence, to cause to suffer ruin; to balk of success, and bring disaster on.

   • Weak and envy'd, if they should conspire, / They wreck themselves, and he hath his Desire.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:destroy

Antonyms

• build
• construct
• make
• produce

Derived terms

• bewreck
• wrecker
• wreckage

Translations

References

Yola

Noun

wreck

1. Alternative form of rocke

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