The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crippled \Crip"pled\ (kr?p"p'ld), a.
Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. ``The crippled crone.''
--Longfellow.
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.
Wiktionary
1 (context usually offensive English) Having a less than fully functional limb, or injuries which prevent full mobility. 2 (context usually offensive English) Having any difficulty or impediment which can be likened to a crippling injury. v
(en-past of: cripple)
WordNet
Usage examples of "crippled".
It seemed to be ignoring Quick Ben - though the wizard knew that it had been this beast that had saved him from the Crippled God.
So much that those people witnessed… the Fall of the Crippled God, the arrival of the Tiste Andü, the last flight of the Dragons into Starvald Demelain…' She fell silent, a veil descending over her eyes.
The bringing down of the alien being who would come to be called the Crippled God was a… violent event.
From that flesh the Great Ravens were born, carrying with them fragments of the Crippled God's power.
No, deal with that one on your own, Quick, and be ready to jump when the time comes… The Crippled God's declared war on the gods, on the warrens, on the whole damned thing and every one of us in it.
And an unchained Crippled God meant an unleashing of vengeance - enough to sweep all life from the surface of this world.
To defy the Crippled God's unleashing of a deadly will, that would see us all destroyed, Caladan Brood refuses her !
Her warren dies, surely, that at the least, even as it becomes the Crippled God's pathway into every other warren… then they all die.
It seems that, no matter which of the two choices is made, the Crippled God wins.
This Crippled God, this stranger from an unknown realm… Lady Envy, I am frightened.
The scarred and the flawed are what the Crippled God seeks in his servants.
This is the Crippled God's assault, a war against the warrens themselves.
I am Herald to the Crippled God - aye, a new House has come to the Deck of Dragons.
Servants of the Crippled God, however, will find themselves able to travel freely in the paths.
The House of Chains exists beyond the Crippled God's influence - is that not obvious?