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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
cripple
n 1: someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury
or disability to the legs or back
v 1: deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or
worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their
behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: cripple,
stultify]
2: deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident
has crippled her for life" [syn: cripple, lame]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [OE. cripel, crepel,
crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. kr["u]ppel, Dan.
kr["o]bling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk,
but must creep, fr. AS. cre['o]pan to creep. See Creep.]
One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never
had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one
who is partially disabled.
[1913 Webster]
I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my
mind, the reader must determine. --Dryden.
[1913 Webster]
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cripple \Crip"ple\, (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [Local. U. S.]
(a) Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or
with thickets; bog.
The flats or cripple land lying between high- and
low-water lines, and over which the waters of the
stream ordinarily come and go. --Pennsylvania
Law Reports.
(b) A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), a.
Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night."
--Shak.
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5. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p.
pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-pl?ng).]
1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or
foot; to lame.
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He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir
W. Scott.
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2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for
service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as,
to be financially crippled.
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More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the
energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey.
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An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the
body politic. --Macaulay.
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Thesaurus Results for Cripple:
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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Common Misspellings > |
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