crippled

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Adjective

1. (usually offensive) Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.

   1848 "A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?" — Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Chapter 17.]

2. (usually offensive) Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.

   1893 The Percy Driscoll estate was in such a crippled shape when its owner died that it could pay only sixty percent of its great indebtedness, and was settled at that rate. — Mark Twain, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140811201712/http://etext.virginia.edu/etcbin/ot2www-pubeng?specfile=%2Ftexts%2Fenglish%2Fmodeng%2Fpublicsearch%2Fmodengpub.o2w Pudd'nhead Wilson.]

Antonyms

• noncrippled
• uncrippled

Translations

• French: estropié
• German: verkrüppelt
• Italian: storpio, zoppo
• Portuguese: aleijado, coxo
• Russian: искале́ченный
• Spanish: cojo, lisiado

Verb

1. Simple past tense and past participle of cripple

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