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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024crip•ple /ˈkrɪpəl/USA pronunciation n., v., -pled, -pling. n. [countable] - Slang TermsSometimes Offensive.
- a lame or disabled person or animal.
- a person disabled in any way:a mental cripple.
v. [~ + object] - to make a cripple of;
lame:The bullet in his spine had crippled him permanently. - to damage;
keep from working well;
impair:The snowstorm crippled the railway system.
crip•pled, adj. crip•pler, n. [countable] WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024crip•ple (krip′əl),USA pronunciation n., v., -pled, -pling, adj. n. - Slang Terms[Sometimes Offensive.]
- a person or animal that is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs;
a lame or disabled person or animal. - a person who is disabled or impaired in any way:a mental cripple.
- anything that is impaired or flawed.
- a wounded animal, esp. one shot by a hunter.
- Building[Carpentry.]any structural member shorter than usual, as a stud beneath a window sill.
- Dialect Terms[Delaware Valley.]a swampy, densely overgrown tract of land.
v.t. - to make a cripple of;
lame. - to disable;
impair;
weaken.
adj. - [Carpentry.]jack1 (def. 29).
- bef. 950; Middle English cripel, Old English crypel; akin to creep
- 7.See corresponding entry in Unabridged maim. Cripple, disable mean to injure to a degree that interferes with normal activities. To cripple is to injure in such a way as to deprive of the use of a member, particularly a leg. Disable, a more general word, implies any such illness, injury, or impairment:disabled by an attack of malaria; disabled by a wound.
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: cripple /ˈkrɪpəl/ n - offensive a person who is lame
- offensive a person who is or seems disabled or deficient in some way: a mental cripple
vb - (transitive) to make a cripple of; disable
Etymology: Old English crypel; related to crēopan to creep, Old Frisian kreppel a cripple, Middle Low German kröpelˈcrippler n |