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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