cripple

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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)

  1. Crippled.
    • 1599William Shakespeare, Henry V, iv 1
      And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.

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cripple (plural cripples)

  1. (sometimes 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.
    • Dryden
      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, US South except Louisiana) scrapple.

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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 get a physical disability
    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.

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