Cripple

Quick meaning: Cripple is an adjective meaning (now rare, dated) Crippled.

Meaning

(now rare, dated) Crippled.

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

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.

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

Word Forms

• cripples
• crippling
• crippled

Synonyms for cripple

Depending on context, synonyms include disabled, disable, disenable, incapacitate, unable, destroy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lame, halt, weaken, infirmity, maim, mutilate.

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