Cripple Definition
krĭpəl
crippled, cripples, crippling
noun
cripples
A person who is partially disabled or unable to use one or more limbs.
American Heritage Medicine
A person or animal that is lame or otherwise disabled in a way that prevents normal motion of the limbs or body.
Webster's New World
Thicketed, swampy or low, wet land.
Webster's New World
A damaged or defective object or device.
American Heritage
Synonyms:
verb
crippled, cripples, crippling
To make cripple of; lame.
Webster's New World
To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.
American Heritage
To disable, damage, or impair the functioning of.
A strike that crippled the factory.
American Heritage
To make unable or unfit to act, function effectively, etc.; disable.
Webster's New World
To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
adjective
Wiktionary
Other Word Forms of Cripple
Noun
Singular:
cripple
Plural:
cripplesOrigin of Cripple
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From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.
From Wiktionary
Middle English crepel from Old English crypel
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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