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Definition cripple

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.

Adjective

cripple (not comparable)

1. (now rare, dated) Crippled.

Noun

cripple (plural cripples)

1. (sometimes offensive) a person who has severely impaired physical abilities because of deformation, injury, or amputation of parts of the body.
2. A shortened wooden stud or brace used to construct the portion of a wall above a door or above and below a window.
3. (dialectal, Southern US except Louisiana) scrapple.
4. (among lumbermen) A rocky shallow in a stream.

Verb

cripple (third-person singular simple present cripples, present participle crippling, simple past and past participle crippled)

1. to make someone a cripple; to cause someone to become physically impaired
2. (figuratively) to damage seriously; to destroy
3. to release a product (especially a computer program) with reduced functionality, in some cases, making the item essentially worthless.
4. (slang, video games) to nerf something which is overpowered

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