English Explanatory Dictionary

cripple

English dictionary entry

Meanings

adj
  1. Crippled.
noun
  1. A person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
  2. A person who is severely impaired or deficient in some non-physical way.
  3. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
  4. Scrapple.
  5. A rocky shallow in a stream.
verb
  1. To make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired.
  2. To damage seriously; to destroy.
  3. To cause severe and disabling damage; to make unable to function normally.
  4. To release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
  5. To nerf something to the point of being underpowered.

Pronunciation

/ˈkɹɪp(ə)l/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-cripple.wav LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-cripple.wav

Word forms

cripple creeple cripples crippling crippled

Etymology

From Middle English cripel, crepel, crüpel, from Old English crypel (“crippled; a cripple”), from Proto-Germanic *krupilaz (“tending to crawl; a cripple”), from Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to bend, crouch, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to bend, twist”), equivalent to creep + -le. Cognate with Dutch kreupel, Low German Kröpel, German Krüppel, Old Norse kryppill.

Synonyms

disabled disable disenable cripple incapacitate unable destroy annihilate aerosolize atomize benothing bewreck blot out blotto dash decompose demolish desolate devastate diffuse disintegrate disperse dissolve eliminate eradicate erase exterminate extinguish extirpate fordo fuck harry jazz lay waste level liquidate nuke obliterate overthrow overturn pull down pulverize race raze ravage ravel remove ruin ruinate stamp out total subvert unbreed unexist unmake uproot waste wipe out wipe off wreck

Related words

disfigurement lame paralysis disability

Derived words

becripple Cripple Creek crippledom crippleness cripplepunk crippler cripplesome crippleware cripply emotional cripple go it, ye cripples long-cripple nipple cripple
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