cripple

[crip·ple]

To cripple is to leave someone unable to walk. Terrible car accidents, for example, can sometimes cripple their victims.

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One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.

Noun
someone whose legs are disabled

Verb
deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life"

Verb
deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss''s hard work"

n.
One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.

a.
Lame; halting.

v. t.
To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.

v. t.
To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.

Cripple

Crip"ple (kr?p"p'l), n. [OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. krppel, Dan. krbling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. crepan to creep. See Creep.] One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.

I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.

Cripple

Crip"ple (kr?p"p'l), a. Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." Shak.

Cripple

Crip"ple, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-pl?ng).] 1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.

He had crippled the joints of the noble child.

2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.

More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay.

An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic.

One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one who is partially disabled.

Lame; halting.

To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.

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Usage Examples

Poetry criticism at its worst today is mean in spirit and spiteful in intent, as if determined to inflict the wound that will spur the artist to new heights if it does not cripple him or her.

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Other Usage Examples

Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.