cripple

Plural: cripples

Noun

• someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury or disability to the legs or back
• A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
• A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
• Scrapple.
• A rocky shallow in a stream.

Verb

Verb Forms: crippled, crippling, cripples

• To cause severe and disabling damage; to impair functionality.
• deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
  • "This measure crippled our efforts"
• deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg
  • "The accident has crippled her for life"
• To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
• To damage seriously; to destroy.
• To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
• To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
• To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.

Adj

• crippled

Examples

• He returned from war a cripple.
• His opponent’s triple-word play seemed to CRIPPLE any chance of a comeback in Words With Friends.
• My ambitions were crippled by a lack of money.
• The car bomb crippled five passers-by.
• The word processor was released in a crippled demonstration version that did not allow you to save.

Synonyms

lame, stultify, abuse, aerosolize, annihilate, annoy, atomize, benothing, bewound, bewreck, blot out, blotto, cripple, damage, damnify, dash, decompose, demolish, dere, desolate, destroy, devastate, diffuse, disable, disabled, disenable, disintegrate, disperse, dissolve, do damage to, do for, do ill, do violence to, eliminate, eradicate, erase, exterminate, extinguish, extirpate, forwork, fuck, grieve, harm, harrow, harry, hurt, incapacitate, injure, jazz, lay waste, level, limit, liquidate, maul, misdo, nuke, obliterate, pull down, pulverize, put someone in hospital, race, ravage, raze, remove, restrict, ruin, scaith, scathe, stamp out, total, unable, unbreed, unexist, unmake, uproot, vulnerate, waste, wet, wipe off, wipe out, wound, wreck

Related Words

disability, disfigurement, lame, paralysis

Anagrams of cripple