cripple
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (now rare, dated) crippledExamples: "And chide the cripple tardy-gaited night, who, like a foul and ugly witch, doth limp so tediously away."; "Early treatment, and treatment spread over a long period, was the on means of rendering a cripple child fit to mix with its fellows on anything like equal terms, […]"; "You let sin in a church and it will cripple that church's ministry. Let sin get its ugly hands on the life of an individual and it will wreck and ruin and twist any life that it gets a hold on. Here was a cripple man who was excluded from the temple."archaicdatednot-comparable
noun (English)
1. (offensive) A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.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."Synonyms: disabledcountableoffensiveuncountable
2. (uncountable, dialect, Southern US except Louisiana) Scrapple.dialectaluncountable
3. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.countableuncountable
verb (English)
1. (figuratively) To damage seriously; to destroy.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;[…]"Synonyms: destroy, annihilate, aerosolize, atomize, benothing, bewreck, blot out, blottofiguratively
2. (figuratively) To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.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."figuratively
3. (slang, video games) To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.slang
This word may be considered offensive or sensitive in some contexts.
Definition source: Wiktionary