Sekirov Dictionary

cripple

/ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/

noun 5
verb 5
adjective 1
forms 3
phrases 1

noun5

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(offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
- He returned from war a cripple.
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(figurative) A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
- Many a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple. — 1906
A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
A rocky shallow in a stream.
(dialect) Scrapple.

verb5

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To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
- The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
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(figurative) To damage seriously; to destroy.
- My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
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(figurative) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
- With all these people all around / I'm crippled with anxiety / But I'm told it's where I'm s'posed to be. — 2019
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To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
- The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
(slang) To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.

adjective1

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(no longer used, old-fashioned) Crippled.
- And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away. — 1599

forms

crippled · crippling · cripples

Phrases with cripple

emotional cripple
A person who has been rendered indecisive, alienated, uncaring, confused, or helpless through experiencing debilitating emotions, such as worry, fear, panic, despair, etc.

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