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Showing words for CRIPPLE using the English dictionary

7 Letter Words for Cripple

clipper, cripple

6 Letter Words for Cripple

lepric, lipper, ripple

5 Letter Words for Cripple

clipe, crile, cripe, peril, piler, piper, plier, price, recip, relic, repic

4 Letter Words for Cripple

ceil, ciel, cire, cirl, clep, clip, crip, crpe, epic, epil, eric, icer, irpe, leir, lerp, lice, lier, lipe, lire, peri, perp, pice, pier, pile, pipe, pirl, plie, prec, prep, prie, repl, repp, rice, riel, rile, ripe, ripp

3 Letter Words for Cripple

cel, cep, cer, cie, cir, cli, clr, cpi, cpl, cpr, crl, eir, eli, epi, ice, ile, ipl, ipr, ire, lei, lep, ler, lie, lip, lir, pci, pcp, pec, pel, pep, per, pic, pie, pil, pip, pir, pli, ppi, ppl, ppr, prc, pre, prp, rec, rei, rel, rep, rie, rip, rle

Definitions for Cripple

[1] Offensive . a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive . a person who is disabled or impaired in any way: a mental cripple.
[2] anything that is impaired or flawed.
[3] a wounded animal, especially one shot by a hunter.
[4] Carpentry . any structural member shorter than usual, as a stud beneath a windowsill.
[5] Delaware Valley . a swampy, densely overgrown tract of land.
[6] to make a cripple of; lame.
[7] to disable; impair; weaken.
[8] Carpentry . jack1(def 29) .
[9] offensive a person who is lame
[10] offensive a person who is or seems disabled or deficient in some way a mental cripple
[11] US dialect a dense thicket, usually in marshy land
[12] (tr) to make a cripple of; disable

Words related to Cripple

paralyze, immobilize, sap, injure, debilitate, incapacitate, hurt, hamstring, stifle, undermine, weaken, halt, ruin, damage, impair, destroy, prostrate, lame, blunt, attenuate

Words nearby Cripple

crios, criosphinx, crip, cripes, crippen, cripple, cripple creek, crippling, cripps, crise, criseyde

Origin of Cripple

before 950; Middle English cripel, Old English crypel; akin to creep

Other words from Cripple

crip·pler , noun
crip·pling·ly , adverb
un·crip·pled , adjective

Word origin for Cripple

Old English crypel; related to crēopan to creep , Old Frisian kreppel a cripple, Middle Low German kröpel

Synonyms for Cripple

debilitate, hamstring, hurt, immobilize, incapacitate, injure, paralyze, sap, stifle, undermine, weaken, attenuate, blunt, disarm, dismember, enfeeble, lame, maim, mangle, mutilate, palsy, prostrate, sideline, dislimb, unstrengthen