Definitions for cripple

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cripple crip·ple

Spelling: [krip-uh l]

IPA: /ˈkrɪp əl/

Cripple is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 133 anagrams from letters in cripple (ceilppr).

Definitions for cripple

noun

1. Offensive. a term used to refer to a person who is partially or totally unable to use one or more limbs. an animal that is similarly disabled; a lame animal. Offensive. a person who is disabled or impaired in any way:
2. anything that is impaired or flawed.
3. a wounded animal, especially one shot by a hunter.
4. Carpentry. any structural member shorter than usual, as a stud beneath a windowsill.
5. Delaware Valley. a swampy, densely overgrown tract of land.

adjective

1. Carpentry. jack1 (def 29).

verb (used with object)

1. to make a cripple of; lame.
2. to disable; impair; weaken.

Origin of cripple

before 950; Middle English cripel, Old English crypel; akin to creep

Examples for cripple

He was evidently a cripple, propped up in a strange wheelchair.

His intention was neither to kill nor to cripple his antagonist.

“The man is virtually a cripple,” he added with unmistakable feeling.

Sectoral sanctions that could cripple the Russian economy are also long overdue.

Then the cripple said to him: “If you are afraid, then you cannot become an Immortal!”

Bring down the Assads, and you cripple the mullahs in both Iran and Lebanon.

The first of these he might, perhaps, solve after a fashion, but the second—and he a cripple!

In some cases, the aftermath of disasters can cripple the very infrastructure that would enable recovery.

On September 16 he was called into court in Manhattan, charged with the alarming crime of punching a cripple.

After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life.