'Crippled' definitions:
Definition of 'crippled'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Crippled'
From: GCIDE
- Crippled \Crip"pled\ (kr?p"p'ld), a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. "The crippled crone." --Longfellow. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crippled'
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 'crippled'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- bad,
- castrated,
- damaged,
- debilitated,
- disabled,
- disarmed,
- disqualified,
- emasculated,
- game,
- halt,
- halting,
- hamstrung,
- handicapped,
- hobbling,
- hog-tied,
- incapacitated,
- inoperative,
- invalidated,
- lame,
- limping,
- maimed,
- paralyzed,
- prostrate,
- spavined,
- weak,
- weakened