cripple

IPA: krˈɪpʌɫ

noun

  • (sometimes offensive) 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.
  • (uncountable, dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.
  • (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.

verb

  • To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
  • (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.
  • (figuratively) 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.
  • (slang, video games) To nerf something which is overpowered.

adjective

  • (now rare, dated) crippled
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Examples of "cripple" in Sentences

  • BUT Tom G cripple is not a term that is used anymore.
  • Everyone believed that she could be wounded by the word cripple.
  • Burnt: My dad LOVED using the word cripple just to annoy people!
  • Namely, getting offended at the word cripple but not g0lliw0gg or P@ki.
  • There's no shame attached to the word cripple I can find in any dictionary.
  • Since we can bring up the system in "cripple mode," we're doing integrity checks manually.
  • I'd like to see you try to paint a better picture with your broken arms, you friggin 'cripple.
  • The pattern of tire treads in the snow, the memory of a 4-year-old child and whether the word cripple is synonymous with kill could determine whether Kevin Keith dies next month for a triple murder in Bucyrus more than 16 years ago.
  • He appeals to themselves concerning the truth of the miracle; the man on whom it was wrought is one whom you see, and know, and have known; he was not acquainted with Peter and John before, so that there was no room to suspect a compact between them: You know him to have been a cripple from a child.

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