crip|ple

crip|ple
crip|ple «KRIHP uhl», noun, adjective, verb, -pled, -pling.
–n.
1. a person or animal that cannot use his legs, arms, or body properly because of injury, deformity, or lack; lame person or animal: »

Long John Silver was a cripple who limped on a wooden leg.

2. (in building) any part of a frame that is shorter than full size.
3. U.S. a dense thicket in swampy or low-land.
4. a railroad car or locomotive that needs repair.
5. a temporary staging or support, as in washing windows.
–adj.
–v.t.
1. to make a cripple of; lame.
2. Figurative. to damage; weaken: »

The ship was crippled by the storm. Business was crippled by a series of strikes.

 SYNONYM(S): impair, disable.
╂[Old English crypel. See related etym. at creep. (Cf. ↑creep)]
–crip´pler, noun.
Synonym Study transitive verb. 1 Cripple, disable mean to deprive of the ability or power to carry on normal activities. Cripple means to deprive a person or animal of the use of a leg, foot, or arm: »

He has been crippled since he broke his hip.

Disable means to deprive of the ability to work or act normally: »

The man is disabled by a heart condition.


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