crippled

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɹɪpəld/

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Adjective

crippled

1. (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?

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)
• Hebrew: נָכֶה (he) m (naché)
• Hungarian: nyomorék (hu), kripli (hu), béna (hu)
• Italian: storpio (it), zoppo (it)
• Latin: mancus, claudus
• Ottoman Turkish: چولاق (çolak), قولاق (kolak) (in the hand or arm)
• Polish: kaleki (pl), okaleczony
• Portuguese: aleijado (pt), coxo (pt)
• Romanian: schilod (ro), infirm (ro)
• Russian: искале́ченный (ru) (iskaléčennyj), изуве́ченный (ru) (izuvéčennyj)
• Sanskrit: रण्ड (sa) (raṇḍa)
• Spanish: cojo (es), lisiado (es)
• Swedish: lytt (sv)

Verb

crippled

1. simple past and past participle of cripple