cripple
Pronunciation: IPA: /kɹɪpl/, SAMPA: /kr\Ipl/
Verb: cripple (third-person singular simple present cripples, present participle crippling, simple past and past participle crippled)
1. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
¶ The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
2. (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
¶ My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
3. 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.
Adjective: cripple (comparative more cripple, superlative most cripple)
1. Crippled.
Noun: cripple (plural cripples)
1. (usually offensive) 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.
2. a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
3. (dialect, US South except Louisiana) scrapple.
Synonyms
disabled person
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