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crip·ple
(krĭp′əl)n.
1.
a. Often Offensive A person who is partially disabled or unable to use one or more limbs:
b. An animal that is partially disabled or unable to use one or more limbs: cannot race a horse that is a cripple.
2. A damaged or defective object or device: "He ... would let that cripple of a steamboat get the upper hand of him in a minute" (Joseph Conrad).
tr.v. crip·pled, crip·pling, crip·ples
1. To cause to lose the use of a limb or limbs.
2. To disable, damage, or impair the functioning of: a strike that crippled the factory.
[Middle English crepel, from Old English crypel.]
crip′pler n.
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cripple
(ˈkrɪpəl)n
1. offensive a person who is lame
2. offensive a person who is or seems disabled or deficient in some way: a mental cripple.
3. (Physical Geography) dialect US a dense thicket, usually in marshy land
vb
(tr) to make a cripple of; disable
[Old English crypel; related to crēopan to creep, Old Frisian kreppel a cripple, Middle Low German kröpel]
ˈcrippler n
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crip•ple
(ˈkrɪp əl)n., v. -pled, -pling.
usage: The term cripple in the sense of “a lame or disabled person” is usually perceived as offensive and is not used very often nowadays. The noun cripple and the adjective crippled have largely been replaced by the neutral term (the) handicapped or by the more recent and increasingly common term (the) disabled. The adjectives challenged and special are preferred by some people but are often ridiculed as euphemisms. cripple in the sense of “a person who is disabled in any way” is used in phrases such as mental cripple, emotional cripple, and social cripple.
—n. 1. Usu. Offensive. a lame or disabled person or animal.
2. a person who is disabled in any way: a mental cripple.
3. something impaired or flawed.
v.t. 4. to make a cripple of; lame.
5. to disable; impair.
[before 950; Middle English cripel, Old English crypel; akin to creep]
crip′pler, n.
crip′pling•ly, adv.
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cripple
Past participle: crippled
Gerund: crippling
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| Noun | 1. |  cripple - someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back |
| Verb | 1. | cripple - deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" weaken - lessen the strength of; "The fever weakened his body" |
| 2. | cripple - deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" maim - injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration or mutilation; "people were maimed by the explosion" hamstring - cripple by cutting the hamstring |
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cripple
verb
1. disable, paralyse, lame, debilitate, mutilate, maim, incapacitate, enfeeble, weaken, hamstring He had been warned that another bad fall could cripple him for life.
2. damage, destroy, ruin, bring to a standstill, halt, spoil, cramp, impair, put paid to, vitiate, put out of action A total cut-off of supplies would cripple the country's economy.
damage help, further, aid, advance, promote, ease, assist, facilitate, fast-track, expedite, assist the progress of
damage help, further, aid, advance, promote, ease, assist, facilitate, fast-track, expedite, assist the progress of
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cripple
verb2. To render powerless or motionless, as by inflicting severe injury:
Idiom: put out of action.
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Translations
كَسيح، مُقْعَـديَشِـليَكسَح، يُقْعِـد
mrzákochromitzmrzačit
invalidinvaliderekrøblinglammesvække
megnyomorítnyomorék
bæklabæklaîur-/hreyfihamlaîur maîurlama; skemma
invalidasluošintiluošyspadaryti žalossuluošinti
invalīdskropliskropļotsakropļot
pohabiti
cripple
[ˈkrɪpl]A. N (lame) → cojo/a m/f, lisiado/a m/f; (disabled) → minusválido/a m/f; (maimed) → mutilado/a m/f
he's an emotional cripple → tiene serios traumas
he's an emotional cripple → tiene serios traumas
B. VT
2. (fig) [+ ship, plane] → inutilizar; [+ production, exports] → paralizar
Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005
cripple
[ˈkrɪpəl] n (lame) → boiteux/euse m/f; (disabled) → infirme mf
vt
(physically) [+ person] → handicaper; [+ limb] → handicaper
[+ person] (emotionally) [shyness] → bloquer; (financially) → handicaper
[+ ship, plane] → immobiliser
Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005
cripple
n → Krüppel m
vt person → zum Krüppel machen; arm, legs etc → verkrüppeln; ship, plane → aktionsunfähig machen; (fig) industry, exports → lahmlegen, lähmen; person → lähmen; the ship was crippled → das Schiff war nicht mehr aktionsfähig; crippled with rheumatism → von Rheuma praktisch gelähmt; to be crippled for life → lebenslang ein Krüppel sein; to be emotionally crippled → ein emotionaler Krüppel sein
Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007
cripple
[ˈkrɪpl]1. n (lame) → zoppo/a; (disabled) → invalido/a; (maimed) → mutilato/a
2. vt
b. (production, exports) → paralizzare
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
cripple
(ˈkripl) verb1. to make lame or disabled. He was crippled by a fall from a horse.
2. to make less strong, less efficient etc. The war has crippled the country's economy.
noun a lame or disabled person. He's been a cripple since the car accident.
Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary © 2006-2013 K Dictionaries Ltd.
cripple
a. lisiado-a, paralítico-a, inválido-a, tullido-a;
v. lisiar, baldar, paralizar; tullir.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
cripple
(ant) n discapacitado mf, lisiado -da mf; vt discapacitar, lisiar; [Nota: cripple, como lisiado, puede ser ofensivo.]English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.