cripple
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From Old English crypel, cognate with crēopan (“‘to creep, to crawl’”); confer Dutch kreupel, German Krüppel, Old Norse cryppill.
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cripple (comparative more cripple, superlative most cripple)
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- 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
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[edit] Noun
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cripple (plural cripples)
- (usually offensive) a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- He returned from war a cripple.
- a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
- (dialectal, US South except Louisiana) scrapple.
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a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities
a shortened wooden stud or brace
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to 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 get a physical disability
- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
- (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
- My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
- 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.
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to give someone a physical disability
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to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality
