crippled

English

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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]:

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

2. (usually offensive) Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury.
   • 1893, Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson.‎^[2]:

     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.

Antonyms

• noncrippled
• uncrippled

Translations

having a physical impediment

• Armenian: խեղանդամ (hy) (xełandam)
• Azerbaijani: şikəst
• 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)
• Italian: storpio (it), zoppo (it)
• Latin: mancus, claudus
• 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)

Verb

crippled

1. simple past tense and past participle of cripple