Cripple

cripple
    n 1: someone who is unable to walk normally because of an injury
         or disability to the legs or back
    v 1: deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or
         worthless; "This measure crippled our efforts"; "Their
         behavior stultified the boss's hard work" [syn: {cripple},
         {stultify}]
    2: deprive of the use of a limb, especially a leg; "The accident
       has crippled her for life" [syn: {cripple}, {lame}]
    

Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), a.
   Lame; halting. [R.] "The cripple, tardy-gaited night."
   --Shak.
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Cripple \Crip"ple\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Crippled} (-p'ld); p.
   pr. & vb. n. {Crippling} (-pl?ng).]
   1. To deprive of the use of a limb, particularly of a leg or
      foot; to lame.
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            He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir
                                                  W. Scott.
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   2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for
      service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as,
      to be financially crippled.
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            More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the
            energy of the settlement in the Bay.  --Palfrey.
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            An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the
            body politic.                         --Macaulay.
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Cripple \Crip"ple\ (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [OE. cripel, crepel,
   crupel, AS. crypel (akin to D. kreuple, G. kr["u]ppel, Dan.
   kr["o]bling, Icel. kryppill), prop., one that can not walk,
   but must creep, fr. AS. cre['o]pan to creep. See {Creep}.]
   One who creeps, halts, or limps; one who has lost, or never
   had, the use of a limb or limbs; a lame person; hence, one
   who is partially disabled.
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         I am a cripple in my limbs; but what decays are in my
         mind, the reader must determine.         --Dryden.
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Cripple \Crip"ple\, (kr[i^]p"p'l), n. [Local. U. S.]
   (a) Swampy or low wet ground, often covered with brush or
       with thickets; bog.

             The flats or cripple land lying between high- and
             low-water lines, and over which the waters of the
             stream ordinarily come and go.       --Pennsylvania
                                                  Law Reports.
   (b) A rocky shallow in a stream; -- a lumberman's term.
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101 Moby Thesaurus words for "cripple":
      abate, amputee, attenuate, blunt, bugger, burden, castrate, cramp,
      cumber, damage, damp, dampen, de-energize, deaden, debilitate,
      defective, deformity, devitalize, disable, disarm, disenable,
      dismember, drain, dull, emasculate, embarrass, encumber, enervate,
      enfeeble, enmesh, ensnarl, entangle, entoil, entrammel, entrap,
      entwine, eviscerate, exhaust, extenuate, fetter, gruel, hamper,
      hamstring, handicap, handicapped person, hobble, hors de combat,
      idiot, imbecile, immobilize, impair, impede, inactivate, incapable,
      incapacitate, involve, kibosh, lame, lay low, lime, lumber, maim,
      mayhem, mitigate, mutilate, net, paralytic, paraplegic, press down,
      prostrate, put, quadriplegic, queer, queer the works, rattle,
      reduce, sabotage, saddle with, sap, shackle, shake, shake up,
      snarl, soften up, spike, tangle, the crippled, the handicapped,
      toil, trammel, unbrace, undermine, unfit, unman, unnerve,
      unstrengthen, unstring, weaken, weigh down, wing, wreck