'Crippled' definitions:

Definition of 'crippled'

(from WordNet)
adjective
Disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg" [syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game]

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]

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