English
cripple
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ˈkɹɪpl/
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.
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 Translations Verb

cripple (cripples, present participle crippling; 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
    My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
  3. 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.
  4. (slang, video games) to nerf something which is overpowered
Synonyms Translations Translations
  • German: zunichte machen
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