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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