What does cripple mean?
Definitions for cripple
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This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word cripple.
Princeton's WordNet
crippleverb
someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
cripple, stultifyverb
deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
"This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work"
cripple, lameverb
deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
"The accident has crippled her for life"
Wiktionary
cripplenoun
a person who has severe impairment in his physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
He returned from war a cripple.
cripplenoun
a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
cripplenoun
scrapple.
crippleverb
to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
crippleverb
to damage seriously; to destroy
My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
crippleverb
to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
crippleadjective
Crippled.
Etymology: From crypel, cognate with creopan; confer Dutch kreupel, German Krüppel, Old Norse cryppill.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
CRIPPLEnoun
A lame man; one that has lost or never enjoyed the use of his limbs.
Etymology: crypel , Sax. krepel, Dutch.
He, poor man, by your first order died,
And that a winged Mercury did bear:
Some tardy cripple had the countermand,
That came too lag to see him buried. William Shakespeare, R. III.I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine. John Dryden, Fables, Pref.
Among the rest there was a lame cripple from his birth, whom Paul commanded to stand upright on his feet. Richard Bentley.
See the blind beggar dance, the cripple sing,
The sot a hero, lunatick a king. Alexander Pope, Essay on Man.To Crippleverb
To lame; to make lame; to deprive of the use of limbs.
Etymology: from the noun.
Knots upon his gouty joints appear,
And chalk is in his crippled fingers found. John Dryden, Pers.Tettyx, the dancing-master, threw himself from the rock, but was crippled in the fall. Addison.
Wikipedia
Cripple
A cripple is a person or animal with a physical disability, particularly one who is unable to walk because of an injury or illness. The word was recorded as early as 950 AD, and derives from the Proto-Germanic krupilaz. The German and Dutch words Krüppel and kreupel are cognates. By the 1970s, the word generally came to be regarded as pejorative when used for people with disabilities. Cripple is also a transitive verb, meaning "cause a disability or inability". The word crippling is also used as an adjective.
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cripple
A cripple is a term used broadly to denote a person who is suffering from a physical disability or impairment, particularly one that impacts their ability to move or walk effectively. However, it's noteworthy to mention that this term can be considered offensive and disrespectful. The more acceptable terms to use are 'person with a disability' or 'physically impaired'.
Webster Dictionary
Cripplenoun
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
Crippleadjective
lame; halting
Crippleverb
to deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame
Crippleverb
to deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled
Etymology: [OE. cripel, crepel, crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. krppel, Dan. krbling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk, but must creep, fr. AS. crepan to creep. See Creep.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Cripple
krip′l, n. a lame person.—adj. lame.—v.t. to make lame: to lame: disable, impair the efficiency of.—ns. Cripp′ledom; Cripp′ling, a prop set up as a support against the side of a building. [A.S. crypel; conn. with Creep.]
Surnames Frequency by Census Records
CRIPPLE
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Cripple is ranked #160975 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
The Cripple surname appeared 100 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Cripple.
98% or 98 total occurrences were White.
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Anagrams for cripple »
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of cripple in Chaldean Numerology is: 3
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of cripple in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of cripple in a Sentence
I could cripple competitors by shutting down their manufacturing.
As long as it manages to divert most of its oil exports from Europe to Asia, the impact could be — relatively speaking — not massive. Otherwise, it would completely cripple the Russian economy, as it's heavily dependent on oil exports.
Since Apple controls what appears in the App Store, it could try to push developers to clean up the ad formats, to make them lighter or smaller, but Apple will not cripple ads in apps - they have an interest in maintaining the ecosystem where the bread and butter is monetization via third-party ad platforms.
This is just the president ignoring the rule of law, ignoring decades of precedent and policy, this is exactly what we feared about Whitaker's appointment, that Matt Whitaker was picked not because Matt Whitaker was qualified for the job -- Matt Whitaker really isn't -- but Matt Whitaker was picked because Matt Whitaker was auditioning on TV talking down the Mueller investigation, talking about Matt Whitaker could -- how we could privately cripple the Mueller investigation.
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These tertiary situations that Durham is talking about related to me, I think it is exactly what I mentioned — it is part of showing this picture to the American public of exactly how corrupt the FBI was under James Comey, the FBI went to any extent possible to trample on people’s rights in order to frame Trump and his campaign and then eventually cripple his presidency, and that’s really what this was all about, and what I think Durham is going to showcase in this trial.
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- инвалид, сломявам, сакат, осакатявам, хромBulgarian
- mrzákCzech
- verkrüppeln, KrüppelGerman
- lisiadoSpanish
- rampa, rampauttaa, vammainen, vammauttaa, invalidi, tuhotaFinnish
- estropier, estropiéFrench
- storpioItalian
- 不具にするJapanese
- krøplingNorwegian
- kaleka, okaleczyć, kalekiPolish
- aleijadoPortuguese
- калечить, инвалид, искалечить, калека, инвалидкаRussian
- funktionshindrad, krympling, invalid, funkis, handikappadSwedish
- sakatTurkish
- калікаUkrainian
- 削弱Chinese
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