Crossword clues for cripple
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my
mind, the reader must determine.
--Dryden.
Cripple \Crip"ple\, (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [Local. U. S.]
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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. A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.
Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), a.
Lame; halting. [R.] ``The cripple, tardy-gaited night.''
--Shak.
Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crippled (-p'ld); p. pr. & vb. n. Crippling (-pl?ng).]
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To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or foot; to lame.
He had crippled the joints of the noble child.
--Sir W. Scott. -
To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled.
More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay.
--Palfrey.An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic.
--Macaulay.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English crypel, related to cryppan "to crook, bend," from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (cognates: Old Frisian kreppel, Middle Dutch cropel, German krüppel, Old Norse kryppill). Possibly also related to Old English creopan "to creep" (creopere, literally "creeper," was another Old English word for "crippled person").
mid-13c., "to move slowly," from cripple (n.). Meaning "make a cripple of, lame" is from early 14c. Related: Crippled; crippling.
Wiktionary
crippled. n. 1 (context often offensive English) a person who has severely impaired physical ability because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body. 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 (context dialect Southern US except Louisiana English) scrapple. 4 (cx among lumbermen English) A rocky shallow in a stream. v
1 to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability 2 (context figuratively English) to damage seriously; to destroy 3 to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
WordNet
n. someone whose legs are disabled
v. deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: stultify]
deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident has crippled her for life" [syn: lame]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
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".
A cripple is a person or animal with a physical disability. Now pejorative when referring to a person.
Cripple may also refer to:
Software
- Crippleware, a type of shareware or freeware that lacks full functionality
Mass media
- Cripple Clarence Lofton (1887–1957), blues artist
- " Crippled Inside", a 1971 song by John Lennon on the album Imagine
- The Crippled Masters, a 1979 kung-fu film
- The Cripple of Inishmaan, a 1997 Irish play
- Crippled Lucifer, a 1998 album by Burning Witch
- " Cripple Fight", a 2001 episode of South Park
- Hooky the Cripple, a 2002 novel by Chopper Read
- Cripple Crow, a 2005 album by Devendra Banhart
- Cripple Need Cane, a rock band from Los Angeles
See also
- Cripple Creek (disambiguation)
Usage examples of "cripple".
If he was willing to take some risks, he could probably put together an attack that would have a shot at crippling the enemy amphib forces, but if he made one wrong step the results would make the loss of the Gridley look like a minor lapse in judgment.
The ritual would provide a cathartic release for antisocial and antiauthoritarian impulses, either exhausting those persons, crippling them, or removing them entirely via death.
In nightmares and in prophecy Apollonius had seen him disguising himself as a crippled beggar during the day, so that no one would take undue notice of him, then changing shape in the dusk and stalking the Ephesians by night, a great monster half-wolf, half-man, a lycanthrope who reveled in the killings.
That was their own little secret, their special secret, her and Uncle Jake, the crippled teenager and the arteriosclerotic old man.
Tom, Bud, Arv, and Hank made a careful examination of the crippled craft.
Jack Shannon, his wily roommate, had spent their nights at barrelhouse piano saloons on the South Side, listening to musicians with names like Pine Top Smith, Cripple Clarence Lofton, Speckled Red, and Cow Cow Davenport pound the keys on their uprights.
For a Navy Yard captain swamped by destroyers, carriers, even battleships crowding in with kamikaze damage, an old crippled submarine was a low-priority customer.
If by some remote chance he succeeded in crippling the mare, the rest of the Beja aggagiers would be upon them in the next instant, their long blades bared.
The young man had since learned the cripple was not only the most skilled mog-ur of all the clans, but that he had a kind and gentle heart beneath his austere visage.
The creation of a new Department of Homeland Security had, theoretically, set up a central clearinghouse for all threat-related information, but the size of the newsuperagency had crippled it from the get-go.
The creation of a new Department of Homeland Security had, theoretically, set up a central clearinghouse for all threat-related information, but the size of the new superagency had crippled it from the get-go.
Yet every Great Cycle the earth shifts, killing and crippling more adults than there are cubs to replace them.
The crippled Sealon attack craft, left behind in a low orbit when its two companions had raised their altitudes and shifted to polar orbits, had long since succumbed to drag, spiraling ever lower until it deorbited and screamed down through the atmosphere, a brilliant fireball, its remains impacting on a large, uninhabited island near the equator.
Fisher was actually a very powerful personnot a drooly, not handicapped, not a cripple, but the captain and commander of a delicate mission to O-Zone.
When Eccles turns to Harry to guffaw conspiratorially after this dig, bitterness cripples his laugh, turns his lips in tightly, so his small jawed head shows its teeth like a skull.