Cripple

Adjective

 * 1) Crippled.
 * 2) * 1599 — William Shakespeare, Henry V, iv 1
 * And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away.

Noun

 * 1)  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.
 * 1) a shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
 * 2)  scrapple.

Synonyms

 * disabled person

Verb

 * 1) to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to get a physical disability
 * The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
 * 1)  to damage seriously; to destroy
 * My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
 * 1) 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.

Adjectives
neglected; wealthy; awful; hopeless; deformed; grotesque; drab; grizzled; rag-wrapped; whining.

Thesaurus
abate, amputee, attenuate, blunt, bugger, burden, castrate, cramp, cumber, damage, damp, dampen, de-energize, deaden, debilitate, defective, deformity, devitalize, disable, disarm, disenable, dismember, drain, dull, emasculate, embarrass, encumber, enervate, enfeeble, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap, entwine, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, fetter, gruel, hamper, hamstring, handicap, handicapped person, hobble, hors de combat, idiot, imbecile, immobilize, impair, impede, inactivate, incapable, incapacitate, involve, kibosh, lame, lay low, lime, lumber, maim, mayhem, mitigate, mutilate, net, paralytic, paraplegic, press down, prostrate, put, quadriplegic, queer, queer the works, rattle, reduce, sabotage, saddle with, sap, shackle, shake, shake up, snarl, soften up, spike, tangle, the crippled, the handicapped, toil, trammel, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unman, unnerve, unstrengthen, unstring, weaken, weigh down, wing, wreck

Etymology
From crypel:, cognate with creopan:; confer Dutch kreupel:, German Krüppel:, Old Norse cryppill:.

Adjective

 * Bulgarian:, сакат
 * Finnish:


 * Norwegian: krøpling
 * Polish: kaleki

Noun

 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 殘廢, 残废
 * Czech:
 * Finnish:, ,


 * French: estropié
 * German:
 * Polish: kaleka
 * Russian: калека, инвалид, инвалидка

Verb

 * Bulgarian: осакатявам
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 致殘, 致残, 殘害, 残害
 * Finnish: vammauttaa, rampauttaa
 * French: estropier


 * German: verkrüppeln
 * Japanese: 不具にする
 * Polish: okaleczyć
 * Russian: калечить, искалечить


 * Bulgarian: сломявам
 * Finnish:


 * German: zunichte machen

Related terms

 * disfigurement
 * lame
 * paralysis
 * disability

Anagrams

 * clipper