cripple
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: video-games
Etymology: From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.
Base: creep
Affixes: -le
Inflected forms:
form: cripples
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: creeple
pos: noun
tags: alternative
form: cripples
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: crippling
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: crippled
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: crippled
pos: verb
tags: past
form: creeple
pos: verb
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
pos: noun
tags: countable
offensive
uncountable
examples: He returned from war a cripple.
I am […]a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my mind, the reader must determine.
gloss: A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
figuratively
uncountable
examples: Many a one, who perhaps doesn't suspect it, is a moral cripple, or maybe a mental cripple.
gloss: A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Scrapple.
pos: noun
tags: dialectal
uncountable
gloss: A rocky shallow in a stream.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
pos: verb
examples: The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
A rackingly painful disease that affects the joints and finally cripples, it is caused by an imbalance of uric acid in the system.
gloss: To damage seriously; to destroy.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
But in respect to the emotional crippling of children it seems to me that women have been overblamed for the kinds of mothers they make, and underblamed for the failure of their marriages.
The rules of engagement issued by Commander in Chief Pacific and U.S. Taiwan Defense Command for the air defense of Taiwan were highly restrictive prior to the 1958 crisis. American fighters on Taiwan were only permitted to fire on hostile aircraft entering Taiwan's airspace and were not permitted hot pursuit in international airspace. U.S. combat air patrols were required to remain east of the "Davis Line," which ran approximately down the center of the Taiwan Strait. After the crisis erupted, the U.S. Air Force commander on Taiwan convinced CINCPAC and the JCS that these rules would cripple air defense efforts in the event of concerted Communist air strikes against Taiwan. In September the JCS approved three relaxations to the rules of engagement: first, U.S. fighters were authorized to engage Communist aircraft crossing the Davis Line on an apparent course toward Taiwan or allied forces;[…]
“I was to see him the halfweek before, to plead for a reduction in the taxes he has placed on us. Impossible, to pay such a fee, and no reason for imposing it. The metalwrights are always willing to do our share, but there need must be a reason for it! He cripples us to build his treasury, and forces honest men to find work elsewhere.” / “The day I meet an honest metalwright, I’ll eat your hat,” a third voice said.
gloss: To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
examples: With all these people all around / I'm crippled with anxiety / But I'm told it's where I'm s'posed to be.
But the penny was beginning to drop: even a successful railway could be crippled by its capital costs.
gloss: To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
pos: verb
examples: The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.
gloss: To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.
pos: verb
tags: slang
Related words: disfigurement
lame
paralysis
disability
Derived words: becripple
Cripple Creek
crippledom
crippleness
cripplepunk
crippler
cripplesome
crippleware
cripply
emotional cripple
go it, ye cripples
long-cripple
nipple cripple
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