'Cripple' definitions:
Definition of 'cripple'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
verb
Deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: cripple, stultify]
verb
Deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" [syn: cripple, lame]
Definition of 'Cripple'
From: GCIDE
- Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. kr["u]ppel, Dan. kr["o]bling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. cre['o]pan 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. [1913 Webster]
- I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cripple'
From: GCIDE
- Cripple \Crip"ple\, (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [Local. U. S.] (a) Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or with thickets; bog.
- The flats or cripple land lying between high- and low-water lines, and over which the waters of the stream ordinarily come and go. --Pennsylvania Law Reports. (b) A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Cripple'
From: GCIDE
- Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), a. Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Cripple'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. [1913 Webster]
- More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey. [1913 Webster]
- An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'cripple'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abate,
- amputee,
- attenuate,
- blunt,
- bugger,
- burden,
- castrate,
- cramp,
- cumber,
- damage,
- damp,
- dampen,
- de-energize,
- deaden,
- debilitate,
- defective,
- deformity,
- devitalize,
- disable,
- disarm,
- disenable,
- dismember,
- drain,
- dull,
- emasculate,
- embarrass,
- encumber,
- enervate,
- enfeeble,
- enmesh,
- ensnarl,
- entangle,
- entoil,
- entrammel,
- entrap,
- entwine,
- eviscerate,
- exhaust,
- extenuate,
- fetter,
- gruel,
- hamper,
- hamstring,
- handicap,
- handicapped person,
- hobble,
- hors de combat,
- idiot,
- imbecile,
- immobilize,
- impair,
- impede,
- inactivate,
- incapable,
- incapacitate,
- involve,
- kibosh,
- lame,
- lay low,
- lime,
- lumber,
- maim,
- mayhem,
- mitigate,
- mutilate,
- net,
- paralytic,
- paraplegic,
- press down,
- prostrate,
- put,
- quadriplegic,
- queer,
- queer the works,
- rattle,
- reduce,
- sabotage,
- saddle with,
- sap,
- shackle,
- shake,
- shake up,
- snarl,
- soften up,
- spike,
- tangle,
- the crippled,
- the handicapped,
- toil,
- trammel,
- unbrace,
- undermine,
- unfit,
- unman,
- unnerve,
- unstrengthen,
- unstring,
- weaken,
- weigh down,
- wing,
- wreck