Meaning

(now rare, dated) Crippled..

Definitions by Sense

1. (now rare, dated) Crippled.
2. (offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
3. (by extension, figurative) A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
4. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
5. (uncountable, dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.
6. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.
7. To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
8. (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.

Example Sentences

And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.

Early treatment, and treatment spread over a long period, was the on means of rendering a cripple child fit to mix with its fellows on anything like equal terms, […]

You let sin in a church and it will cripple that church's ministry. Let sin get its ugly hands on the life of an individual and it will wreck and ruin and twist any life that it gets a hold on. Here was a cripple man who was excluded from the temple.

Other[s] think that, certain challenges are for certain people and not for them, that the reason when some women give birth to a cripple child, or male child instead to a female child, they think God did not answer their wishes, forgetting that every child is a gift from God […]

He held the cripple boy like a towel. The cripple boy's arms and legs dangled uselessly over his father's arm, one of each on either side, while his father balanced the diaper-clad boy on his forearm.

He returned from war a cripple.

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

Many a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple.

Word Forms

• creeple
• cripples
• crippling
• crippled

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When Should You Use Cripple?

Use cripple when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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