crippled

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪpəld/

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Adjective

crippled

1. (now usually offensive) Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility.
   • 1848, Charlotte Bronte, chapter 17, in Jane Eyre‎^[1], archived from the original on 11 August 2014:

     A crippled man, twenty years older than you, whom you will have to wait on?

   • 1971, Eric Bogle, “And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda”:

     So they gathered the crippled, the wounded, the maimed, and they shipped us back home to Australia. The legless, the armless, the blind, the insane, those proud wounded heroes of Suvla.

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

   a crippled version of the software, lacking many features

Antonyms

• noncrippled
• uncrippled

Derived terms

• crippledness

Translations

having a physical impediment

• Armenian: խեղանդամ (hy) (xeġandam)
• Azerbaijani: şikəst
• Bengali: খোঁড়া (bn) (khō̃ṛa)
• Bulgarian: сакат (bg) (sakat)
• Catalan: esguerrat (ca)
• Chamicuro: kos̈ho
• Danish: forkrøblet
• Dutch: verminkt (nl), kreupel (nl)
• Esperanto: kripla (eo), lama (eo)
• Finnish: rampa (fi)
• French: estropié (fr) m
• Galician: tolleito, eivado (gl)
• German: verkrüppelt (de)
• Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐌼𐌰𐌹𐌸𐍃 (gamaiþs)
• Greek: σακάτης (el) m (sakátis), ανάπηρος (el) (anápiros)
• Hebrew: נָכֶה (he) m (naché)
• Hungarian: nyomorék (hu), kripli (hu), béna (hu)
• Italian: storpio (it), zoppo (it)
• Latin: mancus, claudus
• Polish: kaleki (pl), okaleczony
• Portuguese: aleijado (pt), coxo (pt)
• Rengao: jo
• Romanian: schilod (ro), infirm (ro)
• Russian: искале́ченный (ru) (iskaléčennyj), изуве́ченный (ru) (izuvéčennyj)
• Sanskrit: रण्ड (sa) (raṇḍa)
• Spanish: cojo (es), lisiado (es)
• Swedish: lytt (sv)
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: چولاق (çolak), قولاق (kolak) (in the hand or arm)

Verb

crippled

1. simple past and past participle of cripple