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Crippled definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

CRIPPLED, pp. Lamed; rendered impotent in the limbs; disabled.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: disabled in the feet or legs; "a crippled soldier"; "a game leg" [syn: crippled, halt, halting, lame, gimpy, game]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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. He had crippled the joints of the noble child. --Sir W. Scott. 2. To deprive of strength, activity, or capability for service or use; to disable; to deprive of resources; as, to be financially crippled. More serious embarrassments . . . were crippling the energy of the settlement in the Bay. --Palfrey. An incumbrance which would permanently cripple the body politic. --Macaulay.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Crippled Crip"pled (kr?p"p'ld), a. Lamed; lame; disabled; impeded. ``The crippled crone.'' --Longfellow.

Moby Thesaurus

bad, castrated, damaged, debilitated, disabled, disarmed, disqualified, emasculated, game, halt, halting, hamstrung, handicapped, hobbling, hog-tied, incapacitated, inoperative, invalidated, lame, limping, maimed, paralyzed, prostrate, spavined, weak, weakened